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duskwuff on Sept 6, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains

It kind of is. Certificate Transparency logs -- which all modern CAs log newly issued certificates to -- are stored as a Merkle tree.

https://www.certificate-transparency.org/log-proofs-work

What they aren't is coupled to other cryptocurrency nonsense like mineable/tradeable tokens.

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