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BitQuill

Computational Proof of Human Authorship

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Nick
Oct 25, 2024
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ABSTRACT

We present BitQuill, a protocol for providing some reasonable evidence of the human-incremental creation of digital documents through a novel application of proof-of-work and temporal hash chains. The system creates an unforgeable record of document evolution by requiring computational work for each edit operation, making it prohibitively expens…

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