The premise of the Hashd0x's hacktivist proposal is that we may want to build tools that are not only capable of computing virtually anything, but also those capable of computing conditions to preserve truth.

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.

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.

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.