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Board Bitcoin Discussion
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Re: Blockchain Analytics is More of an Art Than Science
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ETFbitcoin
on 22/09/2023, 08:49:40 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1) ,HmmMAA (1)
For Bitcoin as timestamp machine, it's already possible with OpenTimestamps[1]. Some news also report Italian bank already use it[2].

[1] https://opentimestamps.org/
[2] https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/04/11/intesa-sanpaolo-trials-data-recordkeeping-on-the-blockchain/

That's a first step , but with blocksize of 1MB and such fees not much can be created on BTC in massive scale .

But depending on your needs, you could avoid small block size problem by utilizing merkle tree and only store top/parent hash. Peter Todd did that on Internet Archive data[1]. Otherwise if you don't mind altcoin which have bigger block size and have sufficient skill/time, you could fork opentimestamps[2] to support certain altcoin.

[1] https://petertodd.org/2017/carbon-dating-the-internet-archive-with-opentimestamps
[2] https://github.com/opentimestamps/opentimestamps-client