29 sats \ 2 replies \ @rijndael 15 Oct 2022 \ on: OpenTimestamps: Scalable, Trust-Minimized, Distributed Timestamping with Bitcoin bitcoin
Opentimestamps is GREAT! I use it to timestamp git commits and legal documents (sign, scan, timestamp). Incredibly useful utility. Planning on building some other proof of existence tools on top of it and a simple asset tracking db.
I tried running my own calendar server once but had some trouble. Don’t remember what the issue was. Ended up donating some sats to the Alice calendar server and then moving on to something else.
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120 sats \ 1 reply \ @petertodd OP 15 Oct 2022
Thanks for the donation!
Yeah, running your own calendar server isn't very helpful right now. We've got four of them, and that's plenty; each additional one means there's more data that the world needs to save to be sure we can validate every timestamp.
On the other hand, it's very helpful if lots of people know how to run a calendar server, in case the centralized ones go down and the community needs to create new ones. So feel free to experiment with running one! But better off that no-one uses it in production.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @rijndael 15 Oct 2022
Yeah, that’s my thinking. The public calendar servers work great, but from a resilience perspective, I want to know that I can, so whatever software or processes I have that depends on ots can survive beyond the operations of those public servers :-)
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