531 sats \ 2 replies \ @022984a014 22 Jan 2023 freebie \ on: SN release: OpenTimestamps timestamps meta
Who pays for the on-chain OTS transactions?
Wouldn't this introduce an attack vector for someone wanting to financially harm Stacker News?
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241 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 22 Jan 2023
OpenTimestamps does - afaict each calendar only has one small tx per block as they are only submitting the merkle root of everything they're timestamping.
We don't need or rely on OTS for anything critical. This is just for fun ... OTS is way ahead of its time and we probably aren't the ideal end user.
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121 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 23 Jan 2023
That's correct. The four calendars are all funded by donations. You can see the donation addresses on the status pages of the calendars, eg mine: https://alice.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org/ and https://bob.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org/
To reinforce your point: "everything" really is everything. Via the magic of merkle trees the entire world can use a single transaction.
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