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Hashd0x Decentralised App

Hashd0x [spelled hæʃdɑːks] came about as a technical and tactical proposal aimed to address common strategies of mis- and disinformation at the core of ongoing info warfare. At the point of recording this, hashd0x comprises a series of software and hardware prototypes. The software undergoes development towards a protocol for computationally driven investigations. Its design revolves around peer-to-peer, decentralised, user-owned, blockchain-based and serverless computing, allowing to record and verify provenance of still or moving images via hashing their metadata on-chain; this allows making informed assumptions on authenticity of examined imagery. To achieve this images or videos are captured via a dedicated digital camera or a mobile app; as the digital files are recorded onto devices’ flash storage, their content & metadata, including timestamp, signature & algorithmically assigned unique hash values are simultaneously recorded onto public blockchains. These blockchains are publicly owned databases, distributed across individual computer-nodes synced with each other and scattered across a planetwide variety of geographic locations.

Hashmark Proposal

This tactical proposal suggests the notion of hashmark, a p2p version of watermark designed for our computationally augmented information ecology. Hashmark is intended to augment the computational ontology of an image and extend professional technics of open source investigation. The latter is a form of professional social practice emerging to address these complex issues via data-driven digital examination practices. Hashmarks provide a set of data points allowing to address and distinguish factual evidence from fabricated content. Examples of such forms of disinformation are widely observed across social media feeds, i.e. Telegram channels, X (formerly Twitter) feeds and other platforms in which the imagery captured by witnesses of wars or other critical events circulates along with fictitious, often Ai-generated imagery.

The internet enables information ecology at scale. The concept of scale is inherent in the design and engineering of web-based software. In the context of information warfare, this scale is often abused to engineer wide-spreading false narratives. These narratives aim to cause fear, confusion, villainization, or victimization of involved actors, groups, or sometimes entire nations. Let us be reminded that the internet is a relatively recent information ecosystem, enabled via an infrastructure of interconnected servers ingeniously engineered to transmit information. The nature of these information logistics was intentionally and justly created to be agnostic to the content it carries, neutrally allowing it to scale as designed.
Infrastructures of computing robust models of trust (or rather trust-less), namely blockchains, are layers of distributed computing-infrastructures built on top of the internet, addressing what its fundamental protocol designed to do or not to do. This basis protocol is called TCP/IP, which stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
These collective-computing layers, that we call blockchains, situated on top of the existing internet-protocol, enable a whole layer of complexity. They find forms of sophisticated protocols that compute scarcity, where it was previously absent by design. 

Others compute entire ontologies, discrete entities and properties such as ownership, transferability, immutability and more.It is noteworthy that in the context of Hashd0x, such networks have demonstrated their efficacy in computing conditions to verify and instil confidence. The assured reliance within these networks is maintained via so-called, ‘trust-less’, information ecologies, in which nobody needs to trust because anyone can verify. Such verifiability of records is achieved through architectures of self-executing processes within transparent, programmable, collectively hosted and computed environments. This allows us to reassess our believes in what constitutes knowledge within today's technological condition of information infrastructures.
In Plato's epistemological formulation, knowledge is justified true belief. A belief is any claim that you accept. A true belief is any claim you accept that corresponds to how things are in the world, and a justified true belief is a true belief that has proper evidence.
In Plato's account, the entire premise of Hashd0x's proposal can be formulated as an attempt to build tools unlike many existing, capable of computing virtually anything. But those tools capable of computing conditions to present and store knowledge as a justified a true belief.

Such form of 3D scanning involving a dataset of images was achieved via a software technique – aerial photogrammetry. It is a technology of obtaining reliable information about physical objects and the environment through the process of interpreting photographic imagery, which allows the generation of 3D digital models as an end product. As each and every image involved in the production of the digital 3D model has been captured via Hashd0x, decentralised app, they all have algorithmically assigned hashmarks in a form of immutable blockchain stamps. If we assume the success of involved blockchains will prevail, these documenting tragedy on-chain records will remain stored across a vast network of personal computers for countless years, serving as a digitally sculpted memorial to the atrocities of present-day war crimes, forever preserved in our digital archives, uncorrupted, uncensored, and time-stamped. This digitally frozen datascape depicts evidence of some of the most dramatic and terrifying acts of violence in recent decades of European history. Following-up on grassroots initiative taking shape of a tactical software, this hactivist intervention addresses genuinely troubled condition of truth in today’s world; A world largely driven by information epidemics and information wars at a scale unseen before.

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