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New blog post ⚡️🎥 - Rewriting History is Over: How Rolling Timestamps Make Video Footage Tamper-Proof
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We stand on the shoulders of giants. 🙌🌎
Today is the 10 year anniversary of the production release of @opentimestamps
I created OpenTimestamps in a few weekends because I was frustrated that no-one else had created such an obvious and necessary tool. Since then it has become the global standard for secure timestamps: if you ask an LLM how to create a timestamp, it'll almost certainly suggest using OpenTimestamps.
OpenTimestamps has grown to the point where everything from art, to forum posts, to software releases, to war crimes evidence is getting timestamped with OpenTimestamps. Along with some applications I won't be able to talk about for at least a few years... fortunately that data is timestamped!
While I have no way of knowing for sure how many documents in total are getting timestamped per second – merkle trees – I can say that as of the past two weeks (beyond that I automatically delete logs) the public calendars I run have averaged about 5 timestamp requests per second from about 60,000 distinct IP addresses. I have no idea what all these people are using OpenTimestamps for. But clearly it's getting fairly popular!
Thanks goes out to @realSimpleProof, $TIME, and all the people who have donated directly to the public calendars for their support. OpenTimestamps costs a few hundred a month to run now, along with my time. Without your help keeping OpenTimestamps running would be a lot more painful. If you want to donate, you can do so right here:
alice.btc.calendar.opentimes…
Thanks also goes to @RCasatta and @BULLBITCOIN_ for running two of the four public calendars. They're one of the reasons why OpenTimestamps doesn't have a single point of failure. Finally, thanks goes to the many people who have contributed code to OpenTimestamps over the years, including entire libraries in languages like java and JavaScript that I have no experience with. In fact, the majority of OpenTimestamps clients are quite possibly using code I didn't write at all!
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Blockstamping will become crucial as deepfakes inevitably get getter and start flooding the courts.
The case Mendones v. Cushman & Wakefield (CA) highlights a new threat: self-represented litigants submitting deepfake videos and AI-generated documents as evidence.
Read more about these risks and practical steps courts can take.
🔗 ncsc.org/resources-courts/ai…
#StateCourts #AI
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"Bitcoin's primary technical achievement is more than just digital money — it's a decentralized clock."
Our CTO @Rafa_Cordon on why Simple Proof anchors digital records to Bitcoin, and why nothing else is even close.
Worth twenty minutes if you care about the integrity of records that need to still be verifiable decades from now.
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Instead of trying to prove a video is fake after it surfaces, institutions can prove their footage is authentic from the moment of capture.
New blog post ⚡️🎥 - Rewriting History is Over: How Rolling Timestamps Make Video Footage Tamper-Proof
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Rolling Timestamps — the ability to continuously timestamp streaming data as it's being generated, not after the fact.
New blog post ⚡️🎥 - Rewriting History is Over: How Rolling Timestamps Make Video Footage Tamper-Proof
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"Detection is necessary. But it's not sufficient. What we actually need is prevention — a way to make alteration mathematically provable by anyone, not just forensically detectable by experts or AI tools."
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"In a purely digital world, the ability to alter the past is the ability to control the present."
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What if every signed document was permanently anchored to Bitcoin the moment the ink dried? No take-backs. No tampering. Just immutable proof.
See it in action:
verify.simpleproof.com/SP/P-…
Coming soon 🖋️🤝🔗
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Simple Proof retweeted
¿Puede Bitcoin preservar información para siempre?
@carlostoriello explicó cómo la red puede utilizarse para asegurar archivos y crear registros digitales inmutables que perduren en el tiempo.
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Immutable History, Chapter 2 in production as we speak.
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The 3 winning teams:
1) @LyudaKozlovska
2)@bitgould + @fjahr
3) @Rafa_Cordon & @peterktodd for @realSimpleProof
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Congratulations @LuganoPlanB on the new agreement between @luganomycity and @tether! 🎉⚡️
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