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Alright it’s just a fancy commit/reveal verifiable encryption scheme.

I’ve actually run into this problem at a web3 startup I worked at.

Hmmmm

Use of this protocol assumes the data is worth paying for. If that’s the case, the recipient can turn around and resell the data, which dampens the economics of this scheme, no?