Poor Man's Patent

[Methodise]

I wouldn't mind competing with Blocksign, or otherwise compelling them to apply their methodology to the Bitshares blockchain.

[ingenesist]

OK, excellent... Blocksign is the perfect demo for this tech.  Thank you deeply.

[roadscape]

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

[Methodise]

There are several of these cool services:

https://blocksign.com

[kenCode]

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)...

[xeroc]

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

[ingenesist]

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? 

[roadscape]

Are you looking for a web app that private/securely stores PDF files but publishes their hashes publicly?

[ingenesist]

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?   

[bitimaru]

do it

Great Idea.
I like it.
 

[Musewhale]

do it

[donkeypong]

Great idea. PM'ed you some thoughts.

[pc]

Good idea - I think @roadscape has some experience in that direction?

[Valentin | Lin9uxis]

I guess you could do something like that with Custom Operations.

[ingenesist]

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