There’s an article about the Ombuds project created by Alex Kuck and Nick Skelsey to use the bitcoin blockchain for communications:
Ombuds: Using Bitcoin to make online messages ‘immutable’, Journalism.co.uk, 20 August 2015.
Alex and Nick graduated from UVa in Spring 2015, and helped develop the first offering of this course, including creating the PointCoin cryptocurrency.
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