Brilliant idea from Peter Todd! (slightly modified by me)

Possible tags to show a message was after a certain time

"after_btc_hash":""

"after_btc_block":""

A side-effect is to live checkpoint the chain

See paper: Securing Proof-of-Work Ledgers via Checkpointing

https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/173.pdf

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Is Peter on Nostr?

It ain't called the timechain for nothing. 🤙

Great solution, but I’m struggling to think of situations where I’d need to prove a message was *after* a particular time. I’m usually trying to prove the opposite.

Julian Assange once quoted a bitcoin block hash to prove he was alive

Ah, good example.