How to restore trust on the web while crediting people who create things for a living for what they produce?For the Trusted Web Foundation Podcast, Sebastiaan had the pleasure of interviewing Andy Parsons, Senior Director at Adobe and leading their Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI). My guest and I share a very deep passion for a …

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The Dutch Blockchain Coalition (DBC) hosted a festive end of year event with a panel of industry experts. WordProof founder Sebastiaan van der Lans was one of the panelists discussing data integrity, fake news, trustworthiness and decentralised technologies

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 …

Blockchain co-inventor Scott Stornetta on Timestamps, Society, and Mass Adoption of a Trusted Web Read More »

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 …

New: Timestamp your legal pages with Yoast SEO! Read More »

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 …

Plugin update: WordProof Timestamp 3.0 is out! Read More »

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 …

Marloes Pomp appointed new CEO of WordProof Read More »

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 …

+5 million timestamps… and counting! Read More »

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