Why would you need smart contracts for publishing? (rather than just file-sharing or a p2p web.) I can/have thought of mechanisms in that area, but I’m curious as to what you had in mind.
I agree with what you’re saying, but that’s still an abstract potential rather than a killer app.
You don’t need smart contracts for publishing but you do need some way to publish a list of documents or the hashes of the list of documents. A blockchain is an easy way to publish IPFS addresses of articles.
If you want something like verifying that articles are correct you could it’s very hard to do that without smart contracts and interfacing with a service like Kleros.
Why would you need smart contracts for publishing? (rather than just file-sharing or a p2p web.) I can/have thought of mechanisms in that area, but I’m curious as to what you had in mind.
I agree with what you’re saying, but that’s still an abstract potential rather than a killer app.
You don’t need smart contracts for publishing but you do need some way to publish a list of documents or the hashes of the list of documents. A blockchain is an easy way to publish IPFS addresses of articles.
If you want something like verifying that articles are correct you could it’s very hard to do that without smart contracts and interfacing with a service like Kleros.