Wikipedia has been around since January 15, 2001. Since that time it has stored lots (and lots) of data. At the time of this writing, Wikipedia has over six million articles and grows by more than one gigabyte of (compressed) text each year. As one of the world's top-10 most visited websites, Wikipedia is a major target for hackers. As such, it's not surprising that someone would eventually suggest blockchain could solve all of Wikipedia's security problems. It's also not surprising that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales would rip the idea to shreds. To the man with a blockchain… There's no shortage of people who will ... (full story)