Roadmap for The Decade of Open-Source (2020 to 2030): Let’s Fix the Broken Web, Together! You made it; welcome to this fresh new decade! Looking back at 30 years of the internet, we should be proud. Mankind’s achievements are enormous. We have perfectly organized everything in the world, mostly user-friendly at the same time. With […]
Category Archives: Content Timestamps
4 Solutions to Fix the Broken Web
Utrecht, The Netherlands – Last Thursday, Blockchain Netherlands organized a meetup dedicated to blockchain timestamping. I presented our vision on how Content Timestamps have the ability to redefine the web as we know it while bringing back integrity. Let’s fix the web, together! Here’s a summary of my presentation, including four ways to fix the […]
Brendan Blumer on Timestamps
At London Fintech Week (Juli 26th, 2017), Brendan Blumer talked about timestamps during his presentation called Decentralized Funding and the New Corporate Structure. In five years from now, if you don’t timestamp your articles on the blockchain, you’re going to be considered a fraud. Brendan Blumer, CEO Block.One, 2017, London That quote played an important […]
Dan Larimer – How Blockchain is Evolving (Q&A)
Block.One’s Chief Technology Officer Dan Larimer discusses the future of blockchain at the 2019 Blocksburg Summit. After writing a full transcript of his keynote, here you’ll find the full transcript of the Q&A on how blockchain is evolving. Firstly, a table of content to make this extremely valuable collection of insights easier to navigate through: […]
Dan Larimer – Blockchain is about Integrity by Design
Why do we need blockchain? At Blocksburg Summit, Dan Larimer shared his higher purpose on how building with blockchain is committing to integrity by design. Here’s a transcript of his talk. Later I will add the Q&A he did after his talk. Special thanks to Everything EOS for providing a recording! Here’s a table of […]
Transcript: Brendan Blumer – What’s the future of Blockchain?
After watching this recent interview “What’s the future of Blockchain?” with Brendan Blumer five times, being amazed by all the inspirational quotes, I decided to write a full transcript of this interview. As Walt Disney would have said: “Celebrate progress, tomorrow is just a dream way”! Here’s a table of content: Bringing blockchain beyond high-value […]
An introduction: What is a Blockchain Content Timestamp?
The idea is fairly simple: create a unique and universal fingerprint for every piece of content, based on simple inputs such as a title, the content itself and the date. This results in a unique fingerprint, let’s call it a hash. If one of the inputs changes, then the hash changes. That’s it! Some say it’s an ISBN for […]
Sebastiaan at Emerce eDay Next Gen: “Open Source is Big Business”
Students are the next generation of media professionals. During eDay Next Gen, I had the pleasure to educate hundreds of students on the power and opportunities of open-source, and that working open-source can be big business, too. 34% of all the websites on the web are empowered by the free software WordPress. It’s a textbook […]
10 Reasons Why Timestamping Content with Blockchain Matters
The Internet has a deep-rooted issue: trust. How do consumers know whether the information presented by websites can be trusted, and how can website owners claim ownership over their content? Being a nerd, fascinated by open-source technology since 2006, I’m starting to see exactly how those issues can be solved by timestamping content with blockchain. […]
Fighting Fraud, Plagiarism & Fake News with Blockchain Timestamps
Amsterdam, September 2019 – I had the pleasure to be a guest at Olivier Rikken’s highly interactive live webinar. Olivier is the #1 keynote speaker in Netherlands and Curaçao on blockchain and founder of Emerging Horizons. We’ve discussed how the internet is broken, and how timestamping content is the way which leads us toward a […]