On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 01:15:08PM -0400, Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I'm replying to Peter, skipping the other emails. > > I perceive all these emails as disruptive trolling, ignoring the > importance of real timestamping, while handwaving about things that > are roughly false and harmful. > > Since the start of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin has been used to write > timestamps that stay intact despite malicious action to arbitrary > systems and records, showing the earliest on-chain publication of > data. It seems misleading that OTS does not do that, when it is such a > prominent system. >
Please be cautious with tone and when assuming bad faith. I don't believe that Peter is trolling. Also, as politely as I can, when something like OTS whose model is dead-simple, well-documented, and has been running for years providing significant value to many people, comes under attack for being underspecified or failing to do what it says ... this is a surprising claim, to say the least. After talking to a few people offline, all of whom are baffled at this entire conversation, I think the issue might come down to the way that people interpret "timestamping". If you believe that "timestamping" means providing a verifiable ordering to events, then of course OTS does not accomplish this, nor has it ever claimed to. If you think that "timestamping" means proving that some data existed at a particular time, then this is exactly what OTS does. Personally -- and I suspect this is true of Peter as well -- I have always read the word as having the latter meaning, and it never occurred to me until now that others might have a different interpretation. I apologize for contributing to a thread that is getting a bit out of hand, but I hope this can help the different parties see where the confusion is. -- Andrew Poelstra Director of Research, Blockstream Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: https://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew The sun is always shining in space -Justin Lewis-Webster
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