From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
To: "Emin Gün Sirer" <el33th4x0r@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Virtual Notary.
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 08:54:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0Ot_2VH-iAnpeZr7_Wniw5Zsu2KS11yN2sqewY5FueZaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPkFh0tWykVJU-9mCTR95eqUF0B5TO-ZO7B3L0wf_QYAmAuuBA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Emin Gün Sirer <el33th4x0r@gmail•com>
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Given the recent discussions on projects that use the Bitcoin blockchain
> to record factoids, people on this list might be interested in the Virtual
> Notary project. Virtual Notary is essentially an online witness (aka
> attestor) to online factoids. It can provide:
>
> * proof of Bitcoin funds (without revealing public addresses or fund
> location on the blockchain)
>
> * proof of Bitcoin address ownership
>
> * proof of Tweet
>
For what it's worth, a subsidiary of Dunvegan Space Systems is pursuing
exactly this as a business.
EMail JGarzik@DSS•co if you want to know more.
--
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-20 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-20 10:25 Emin Gün Sirer
2015-05-20 15:54 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2015-05-25 18:07 ` Mike Hearn
2015-05-22 9:00 Jonas Schnelli
2015-05-23 1:46 ` Ben Vulpes
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