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Title: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: ingenesist on April 17, 2016, 05:08:36 pm: Hello,

Does anyone know where I can find an off-the-shelf wallet application that can create a hash of a document and store it on the bitshares blockchain?

Specifically, we are researching Blockchain opportunities for professional engineering Society and want to eventually develop a branded registry for securing engineering works.

Thanks
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: luckybit on April 17, 2016, 05:21:52 pm: It can easily be written as a Python app, encode the hash as a series of transactions similar to how Omni or Counterparty does it. Does anyone know the Bitshares API well enough to write this app?
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: pc on April 17, 2016, 06:34:23 pm: Quote from: luckybit on April 17, 2016, 05:21:52 pm
It can easily be written as a Python app, encode the hash as a series of transactions similar to how Omni or Counterparty does it. Does anyone know the Bitshares API well enough to write this app?
@xeroc - but he's on vacation ISTR
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: ingenesist on April 18, 2016, 03:00:02 pm: What about two separate programs; 1. to create the hash and the other, a simple wallet, to load the key? Does this make sense?

Thanks
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: Valentin | Lin9uxis on April 18, 2016, 06:30:20 pm: I guess you could do something like that with Custom Operations.
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: pc on April 18, 2016, 06:42:34 pm: Good idea - I think @roadscape has some experience in that direction?
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: donkeypong on April 19, 2016, 04:35:42 am: Great idea. PM'ed you some thoughts.
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: Musewhale on April 19, 2016, 01:59:57 pm: do it
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: bitimaru on April 19, 2016, 02:23:04 pm: Quote from: BTS熊 on April 19, 2016, 01:59:57 pm
do it

Great Idea.
I like it.
+5% +5% +5%
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: ingenesist on April 19, 2016, 06:51:00 pm: Thanks for the comments. Indeed we want to "do it".

"Poor Man's Patent" is just a way to describe the functionality that we need in a simple way. Actually, this application would reside behind the National Society of Professional Engineers membership curtain. Instead of "inventions", they would archive their "stamped" works upon an appropriate ontology on a secure server and the hash of those documents on a blockchain. Those parts would come later, we just need to prove one step at a time. No budget now, that's why I need off-the-shelf. If demonstrable, they would fund, etc.

Can anyone help mash something together?
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: roadscape on April 19, 2016, 11:12:08 pm: Are you looking for a web app that private/securely stores PDF files but publishes their hashes publicly?
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: ingenesist on April 21, 2016, 10:14:25 pm: That sounds promising. Does it exist? This seems like a fairly straight forward request - like the first thing that blockchain would have been used for. So an application should exist, true?
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: xeroc on April 22, 2016, 06:08:27 am: https://github.com/xeroc/python-graphenelib/blob/master/examples/custom_operation.py
The "False" flag in "sign_builder_transaction" needs to be set to True if you want to broadcast your transaction
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: kenCode on April 23, 2016, 04:33:12 pm: Quote from: ingenesist on April 17, 2016, 05:08:36 pm
Does anyone know where I can find an off-the-shelf wallet application that can create a hash of a document and store it on the bitshares blockchain?...
and want to eventually develop a branded registry for securing engineering works.

Try out Alexandria (http://alexandria.media/#/media/type/book) and start getting familiar with IPFS (http://ipfs.io)...
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: Methodise on April 23, 2016, 10:56:12 pm: There are several of these cool services:

https://blocksign.com
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: roadscape on April 25, 2016, 04:30:34 pm: Quote from: ingenesist on April 21, 2016, 10:14:25 pm
That sounds promising. Does it exist? This seems like a fairly straight forward request - like the first thing that blockchain would have been used for. So an application should exist, true?

PM sent
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: ingenesist on April 25, 2016, 06:34:12 pm: OK, excellent... Blocksign is the perfect demo for this tech. Thank you deeply.
Title: Re: Poor Man's Patent
Post by: Methodise on February 25, 2017, 03:29:55 am: I wouldn't mind competing with Blocksign, or otherwise compelling them to apply their methodology to the Bitshares blockchain.