"The gains in technics are never registered automatically in society: they require equally adroid inventions and adaptations in politics; and the careless habit of attributiong to mechanical improvements a direct role as instruments of culture and civilization puts a demand upon the machine to which it cannot respond."
The simplest I saw, install Standard Notes (https://standardnotes.com/ - open source, free) encrypted notes app, write something, then publish it via the interface.
It will create you a blog on their https://listed.to/ webpage
When I was university student (~ 2012), Woz was traveling Europe visiting Macdonald's (:D) in lots of countries including Slovakia. Shared it on the internet, probably Twitter.
One of my classmates tracked him and successfully asked for a photo with him. nice guy
Proof of Work require no secret information as an input and have to be easy to verify. But most importantly, why would anyone do this?
Passport issuer can act like certification authority, this is not a trustless system where PoW can be used for something. Public key infrastructure is a solved thing with it's own problems, but verification is not one of them if authority is working as it should.
EDIT: Let's not even mention that smartcards have effective lifetime and efficiency.
- Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization
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