Video: Open Timestamps: Leveraging Bitcoin’s Security For All Data

One of Bitcoin's most important security features, a crucial property that makes the system trustless, is its open source nature. Because Bitcoin’s code is open source, anyone able to read code can check for themselves whether it does what it's supposed to do. Plus, as per Linus's Law: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. But open source code doesn't necessarily eliminate all risk. Users still need to trust that the software they run on their computers actually reflects the open source code as it should. To eliminate this risk, Bitcoin developers have developed a fierce security....

Security is important, in any context, be it physical or digital. When it comes to bitcoin, security is of the utmost importance yet proper security of bitcoin remains a mystery to the average newcomer in the space. We hope that by now, bitcoiners in this space have offline security measures. For those that do or do not, Trezor is a simple, practical way to store your bitcoins. Trezor is developed by czech company – SatoshiLabs. The device runs for $119 and is as big as your thumb. See the video for unboxing and review of the service. For those too impatient to watch a video, read on for a....

In a recent blog post, a new individual has been brought into the limelight as a possible identity behind the alias behind Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto. A web developer by the name of Aaron Alan Alexander posted on his Medium blog and Zapchain about his potential findings that a woman named Margaret Runchey is possibly the creator of Bitcoin. In Alexander’s post he writes about how Runchey authored a distributed systems architecture which relies on digital signatures that use a series of unified constraints including timestamps and geolocational data. This creates a form of multiple mints....

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Acronis , the Singaporean data security, and protection company has announced that the company will implement blockchain technology for data protection in the future A Singapore-based firm has expressed its interests to experiment with blockchain technology to strengthen its data storage and security services. Acronis, as the name is titled, has recently employed a research and development facility to look into the Bitcoin’s distributed ledger technology, while focusing on creating tools that can be used to protect data from getting corrupted, stolen or compromised. Is it something new?....