Popula News The article gets forever the Ethereum blockchain with the help of Civil in First World

The news article is filed on Ethereum's blockchain with civilian help

A first happened using the Ethereum blockchain. A news article has been completely archived on the blockchain. The director of Popula, Maria Bustillos, a site owned by a journalist, recently announced that an article from the Death and Taxes magazine website was stored in its entirety in the blockchain.

The IPFS protocol and the Ethereum blockchain were used for the transference. In this way, the article will remain forever on the blockchain … or at least as long as they exist.

According to Bustillos, the goal of the project it was to preserve this article and the journalist had this idea from 2012 or 2013, when he started working with Bitcoin and the crypto and blockchain world for the first time.

He says that even then he believed that blockchain technology could be used to decentralize the world and produce records that could not be easily corrupted or changed. It was evident to her, as a journalist, that it was an important technology that could easily be used as a tool for freedom of the press and to protect citizens' rights for freedom of speech.

Bustillos has cited many libraries destroyed around the world as part of the reason why the immutable cryptocurrency ledger is so important. According to her, this is now the first time anyone can create absolute records that are not easy to destroy or corrupt while the ledger continues to function.

Since the ledger is decentralized, it depends on many people and this is reason enough for the blockchain to exist forever in its opinions. The use of this technology, for her, can be considered an important turning point in the way information is stored.

Civil helped to put the article on the blockchain

A startup of blockchain journalism called Civil was very important for popula put the article on the blockchain. The startup used its team and its technology and the whole process was mainly realized with MetaMask.

According to the reports of the people involved in the action, it was actually much easier than expected. According to Bustillos, storage was practically ready in about an hour. Now, every article published on Popula will be filed on the blockchain, usually 90 days after publication.

There are still many things to do, however, since no viewer for the articles has been implemented yet. It's harder to do it because not only has the article text been stored on the blockchain, but its entire digital signature has been stored as hashes using blockchain technology.

According to Bustillos, digital signatures are very important, but also having the text is because it is easier for anyone to read without using specific programs. Once you put the text on the blockchain, you can never delete it again.