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SHA-256 Happens

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/dinosaur/?comic=840

Strip by: David Morgan-Mar

T-Rex: This comic has been modified to use
T-Rex: BLOCKCHAIN!
T-Rex: Every reader generates a timestamped cryptographic hash that is appended to the comic and then distributed over the net.
Utahraptor: To what purpose?
T-Rex: It's... like Bitcoin!
Utahraptor: Yes, but why add it to a comic?
T-Rex: I don't understand the question.
T-Rex: It really gets my Nakamoto running.

The author writes:

Where there's a bandwagon, there's a T-Rex.