I want to show everyone how smart I am about predicting current events, or prove that I knew some secret event happened, without my prediction causing interference.
Or only publish a hash that used some collision-resistant function (future proof), and then publish the text that matches the hash later. For this, you can just tweet it, or write it into a HN comment.
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