Will it be possible to do what Factom does on Safenet?

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@Sonder

how would Safenet hash or store a simple document like a birth certificate that can be time stamped and not changed without leaving a trail of them changes

Safenetwork can store a document but not time stamped it and Factom can do the contrary. So a solution is a dual one: Factom (to time stamp the document hash) + Safenetwork (to store the document).

@riddim

You’d need to include something that can’t be known earlier

@drehb

As others said, by storing something that could only be known at that time, you could basically timestamp the document.

@Traktion

Those who maintain atomic clocks etc could write time stamps to the network, along with a unique hash. Others could use this to associate data with a date/time.

All these cases can only prove that a document was issued after a certain date and generally we need a proof that it was issued before a certain date.

A time stamp is not something that is created independently and that can be reused at will for any documents. It must created with the document and both must be validated together by the network (an app is not enough).

A long time ago I proposed a RFC to implement timestaping in the SAFE Network and there is a long topic discussing it.