Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

The price of something has nothing to do with the content. The data that represents the price is a pointer to the content, akin to affixing a new price sticker to the jacket of a book. Perhaps the original published content could have a recommended price embedded in it.

This applies to the names and categorizations of things as well.

As for updates, imagine you're a shopkeep and in the morning you publish a table of prices, titles and content-addressable hashes.

Now, for the whole naming-of-the-things... take your pick: ICANN or Namecoin-like.

Claim ownership of a top-level name and then you can point it at whatever you want.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: