In 1991, over 3 decades ago, Scott Stornetta and Stuart Haber published the paper “How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document”. This paper can be described as the invention of blockchain. In 1992 this paper won the Discover Award for Computer Software; it’s considered to be one of the most important papers in the development of …
An update about increased accountability through LinkedIn Identities, plugin announcements for various Content Management Systems which will take WordProof’s website coverage to over 78% of all websites powered by Content Management Systems, video guides on how to use WordProof, and a keynote from WordProof founder Sebastiaan van der Lans at Friends of Search Amsterdam! Identity …
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The word is out! WordProof has partnered with Yoast SEO to bring the power of timestamps to all Yoast SEO users. Using the latest version of Yoast SEO (19.2), you can use WordProof to timestamp your Privacy Policy page (and Terms & Conditions page if the WooCommerce plugin is active). Yoast and WordProof believe that …
Our founder Sebastiaan van der Lans had the opportunity to share our vision of building a Trusted Web at a leading European search conference, Friends of Search. Over 600 professionals from the SEO / SEA industry visited this prestigious event, and many of them attended our keynote. Among the other speakers were leaders from Google …
We are excited to announce version WordProof Timestamp 3.0 for WordPress! In this blog post, we’ll go over the various improvements that range from a new way to authenticate websites to the new blockchain certificate pop-up. Let’s dive in! Improved authentication flow Older versions of WordProof Timestamp required you to paste a site key which …
Blockchain consultant Marloes Pomp is the new CEO of WordProof. She takes over from Sebastiaan van der Lans who founded WordProof in 2019. Sebastiaan will remain with WordProof in the role of COO and will thus be responsible for the day-to-day operations. Marloes will mainly focus on the legislative processes around the safe internet in …
Celebration time at WordProof HQ: after crossing the 1 million timestamps mark in February 2021, WordProof has now timestamped 5,308,142 million pieces of content on the blockchain! Meanwhile, our development team is working around the clock to add the redesigned Blockchain Certificate pop-up & buttons to the WordPress-plugin, and finalizing the Shopify integration. Beta testers …
The Trusted Web has surveyed people across Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States to get their assessment on the problem called fake news. The reports are available now and include a ‘Key Findings‘-section for the main takeaways. State of Misinformation 2021 Europe State of Misinformation 2021 Southeast Asia State of Misinformation 2021 United States
The Trusted Web and WAN IFRA have joined forces and host an event about blockchain in the newsroom this Thursday. In the run-up to this event, WAN IFRA has asked several questions about the state of blockchain in publishing. Let’s take a look at the results! The majority of the respondents believe that blockchain technology …
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The word is out: the entire Drupal community can now use the official WordProof for Drupal module to implement automatic timestamps. The module was developed in collaboration with the Dutch Drupal agency SWIS and includes the new blockchain certificate. Matthias Snoei, general director at SWIS: “The concept of open source is integrated in SWIS’s DNA. …