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1) One cool application of on-chain social media: In-message verification.

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28) So how about social media? Right now, if you tweet something, and your friend pulls out Facebook, they can’t see your tweet. Social media networks are isolated, not interoperable.

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2) In theory, if social media messages were on-chain, then in addition to composability between different platforms, you could have the blockchain operate within a tweet. What does that mean?

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3) Well, first, there would be ways to send messages like: "The winner of the protocol governance vote is {xyz}", where {xyz} was a reference to an actual on-chain smart contract, _combined with its value_. And so the tweet would be verifiably correct.

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4) Or, if actual election results were on-chain, you could have verifiably correct social media messages about them. Or anything else with an on-chain value. E.g. "Tokenized AMZN stock is trading at {abc}" or "{lmn} owns the property rights to {opq}"

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5) But you could actually do even more. You could, for instance, tweet out: "Here's a verified fact! 2 + 2 = {print(2+2)}", which would just render as '2 + 2 = {print(2+2):4}'.

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6) And in general, anything that a blockchain could compute--basically anything a computer program that has access to all other blockchain data could compute--you could embed in your message. It would be self-evaluating and automatically verified as accurate (or not!).

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It is done. 2bits/hz

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how will you go about sending "messages" in the block chain social media platform for free? This msg cost 0 Sol to send.

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Verifying Blockchain data directly on social media is not remotely interesting tbh. Verifying computed 'facts' has never been an issue.

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I think using Blockchain & Cryptography for Social Media does provide some solutions. For instance a public official(politicians, a company CEO etc...) being able to sign and verify an important post "on chain", to deal with account hacks or deep fakes

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But I mean how many people evaluate 2 plus 2 must equal four vs how many just follow the teachers instructions? It would be great if everyone was so analytical but to me it seems like most people are waiting for instructions rather then defining them on thier own.

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This assumes the authentications were honest, but our short history proves this to be a terrible assumption. The content of social media isn’t meant to be accurate, it is meant to be distracting, provocative and influencing.

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