The open standard used to anchor ledger records to the Bitcoin blockchain, producing an independently verifiable proof-of-existence timestamp.
The open standard used to anchor ledger records to the Bitcoin blockchain, producing an independently verifiable proof-of-existence timestamp.
It proves a hash existed at a time. It proves nothing about whether what was hashed was true — that is what the invariants are for.
Every term here is one the protocol actually uses, defined for somebody who was never taught it — with the part that usually goes wrong. All terms →