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RE: UTILIZING THE BLOCKCHAIN FOR DOCUMENTATION
What might be interesting is compressing some data and then base64 encoding it. I don't think people will appreciate such posts, but this is doable. The amount of information that could be stored this way would be limited by the maximum block size, and it certainly would not make for an interesting post, but it is a way to store other kinds of information.
Perhaps such experiments could be labeled as FORSTORAGE or something and not soliciting votes. We likely would want a tag that could be easily filtered to handle such DATA posts, as it'd suck to get flagged a bunch of times because of posting a data post.
Right, I could see the flags... Good point though on the benefit of compressing and encoding data...
Maybe in a reply to your own, older post would be a great place to try it.
Then, no one would really see it.
Interesting idea.... as a reply. That has quite a bit of potential actually. You could string multiple replies together if you needed to and fragment a larger data set across those replies. THIS IS DANGEROUS talk though. Something like this could be abused to attack the network thinking about it.
Because we are decentralized the witnesses still store the blocks. What is to stop someone from making something that intentionally keeps creating blocks in the form of replies. That's kind of scary, and hopefully something @dantheman has covered. It wouldn't even have to be rapidly posted to be an issue... it'd just chew up a lot of space and the storage requirements for witnesses would balloon. I don't know how the blockchain really works so there is hopefully a defense for this.
On the non-nefarious side of things, it could be a pretty cool little project and potentially be useful.
You could do some REALLY cool things such that your main post and the replies are linked together and a specialized website viewing program might be able to string some interesting data together.
If you just wanted to store it, and only you know its there. Then here is one way to do it.
Make a post, as you said, with base64 encoding or PGP.
Then after a blocks time has gone by, edit the post and paste something for everyone to see.
You can then go to steemd and see your post, but basically, you will have to know what you are looking for.
I am pretty sure you do not edit the original block created, so its always there. (I could be wrong)