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New blog post ⚡️🎥 - Rewriting History is Over: How Rolling Timestamps Make Video Footage Tamper-Proof
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We're grateful for Carlos's leadership in building Simple Proof. Our products, services, and commitments to customers continue without interruption.
Agradecemos a Carlos por su liderazgo en la construcción de Simple Proof. Nuestros productos, servicios y compromisos con nuestros clientes continúan sin interrupción.
Protocols like #C2PA and #CAWG are emerging to answer the What, the How and the Who… but what about the When?
OpenAI, Meta caution US judiciary about risk of 'deepfake' evidence reuters.com/legal/government…
Thanks to @opentimestamps, the tools to anchor information in time already exist, so anyone can verify it hasn’t been changed.
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Headed back to the Oklahoma State Capitol next week to explain @opentimestamps & @realSimpleProof to suits.
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🧵Bitcoin as a Courtroom Evidentiary Standard.
AI can fake digital content in seconds. So how does a court know when a digital file really existed & that it hasn't changed?
We filed a comment with the federal Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules.
Our answer: Bitcoin.
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Really enjoyed being on this Spaces to talk about bringing Bitcoin timestamping into the Federal Rules Evidence.
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
"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.
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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.
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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."