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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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  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 [Bitcoin-development] Virtual Notary 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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