They will implement OpenTimestamps to demonstrate when documents entered the file.
“This file serves anyone seeking a serious understanding of bitcoin,” the institute says.
The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute announced the construction of a digital archive aimed at preserving the historical and intellectual memory of Bitcoin. This, with the aim of guaranteeing access to key documents for future generations.
The initiative aims to bring together not only the writings of Satoshi Nakamoto, but also materials that They make up the theoretical and technical basis on which the digital asset was developed.
According to explained Michael Goldstein, president and founder of the organization, the file aims to contextualize bitcoin within different currents. Among them, Austrian economics, cryptography, the cypherpunk movement, free software and political philosophy.
The project arises as a response to the fragility of digital resources. The above, considering that there are links that stop working and documents that disappear over time.
In Goldstein’s words, the intention is for Bitcoin documentation to survive:
Archiving requires building an institutional-level infrastructure that ensures information survives not just for years, but for decades and beyond. That means adopting the standards that libraries and archives use to maintain integrity and provenance over time.
Michael Goldstein, president and founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.
As part of the technical infrastructure, the Institute will implement OpenTimestamps. This is a tool that will allow you to cryptographically demonstrate the moment in which each document will be incorporated into the file.
This tool, created by cryptographer Peter Todd, was used in September 2023 by the Guatemalan authorities. It was used to prevent fraud in the presidential elections in that country, as reported by CriptoNoticias.
With OpenTimeStamps, we seek to ensure the integrity and origin of the materials. This, allowing Anyone can verify that the information has not been altered.
“This file serves anyone seeking a serious understanding of bitcoin,” Goldstein noted. And he highlighted that access will be available to developers, node operators, miners, academic researchers, policy makers and the general public. interested in understanding the ideas that gave rise to Bitcoin.
The project, still in the construction phase of its technical base, aspires to be progressively expanded with more historical, economic and technical material. In addition to translations into different languages.