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Technology & Trust

The $812 Billion Illusion: Replacing PDF with Block-Semantic Trust Architectures

Sonny Saggar, MD

What this paper examines

Examines costs of static PDFs and proposes block-semantic trust standards for verifiable electronic documents.

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