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GitHub Is Burying Bitcoin Code Inside an Arctic Mountain to Ride Out the Next 1,000 Years

Deep inside a forsaken coal mine on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the Bitcoin Core code repository will be kept on film reels and stored for centuries.

Tech  ·  1 April 2020

A UK University Is ‘Fingerprinting’ National Archives With Blockchain

A British university and the Open Data Institute have built a blockchain system to secure records of national video archives against tampering.

Tech  ·  29 May 2019
Patents

University Researchers Turn to Blockchain to Preserve Cultural Heritage

A team from China's Tsinghua University is patenting a way to store and share digital versions of culturally important objects using a blockchain.

Markets  ·  13 July 2018