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Event September 15, 2016 Peter Todd Blog

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.

Event January 3, 2009 Bitcoin Whitepaper

Bitcoin block and chain design — headers, Merkle trees, and chain selection

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

How Bitcoin blocks are structured, how Merkle trees commit transactions to block headers, and how the most-work chain selection rule resolves forks.

Event October 31, 2008 Wikipedia

Bitcoin did not appear from nowhere — inheritance and invention

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Adam Back, Wei Dai

Bitcoin v0.1 reuses one cypherpunk primitive (PoW from Hashcash), borrows general CS components (Merkle trees, linked timestamping), and synthesizes the rest (UTXO, mining, 21M cap, P2P, ECDSA).