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Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta publish "How to Time Stamp a Digital document"
https://www.anf.es/pdf/Haber_Stornetta.pdf "A variation that may be particularly useful for business documents is to time-stamp a log of
documents rather than each document individually. For example, each corporate document created
in a day could be hashed, and the hash value added to the company's daily log of documents. " -
Surety starts publishing document id's in NYT
Ran the timestamp document through a cryptographic hashing algorithm, which produces a unique ID for the document. If even a single bit is changed in the document and it is run through the hashing algorithm again, the ID will be totally different. The new york times served as the ledger. -
Bitcoin.org registered on 18 August 2008
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U.S. Government spends $80.7B to Bailout the auto industry
In response, the companies promised to fast-track development of energy-efficient vehicles. https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg31.aspx -
Man buys two pizzas with bitcoin worth $82M
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FMCSA unveils new ELD rule
"..use of ELDs should help save 26 lives and prevent 1,844 crashes involving large commercial motor vehicles annually."(FMCSA, 2015) -
Electronic Logging Devices add blockchain tech to secure logs
BC can be used to verify data transactions between carriers, shippers,vendors, etc. FHWA estimates $26.70/hour delay cost.
