Peter Todd Blog

The personal blog of Peter Todd, a Bitcoin Core developer active since 2012, covering protocol design, consensus rules, and projects like OpenTimestamps.

2016

2 entries

Event October 22, 2016 Added March 21, 2026 Updated July 20, 2026 Article

Peter Todd's participation in the Zcash trusted setup ceremony

Peter Todd

Peter Todd participated in the Zcash trusted setup ceremony in October 2016 — driving across BC, shielding his laptop in a Faraday cage, and torching the hardware — then criticized the process.

Event September 15, 2016 Added March 21, 2026 Updated July 20, 2026 Article

Peter Todd announces OpenTimestamps

Peter Todd

Peter Todd announced OpenTimestamps, an open-source infrastructure using the Bitcoin blockchain to timestamp unlimited documents per transaction via Merkle tree aggregation.