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scottcanoni on May 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Select a document and have it certified in the Bit...

Was I really the first to upload a TXT file that only had the words "hello world"?

https://proofofexistence.com/detail/b94d27b9934d3e08a52e52d7...

I was expecting to see someone else's document that had that text.

xchaotic on May 5, 2016 [–]

I suspect they are salting and using timestamp so that two similar documents don't get the same hash?

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