Still on vacation: no meeting for two more weeks!
Century Metadata
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Century Metadata is a non-profit foundation to preserve critical, encrypted data for users.
Canceling tomorrow's scheduled call because I'm on vacation!
Canceling chat this week: been swamped with other projects, and no progress to report yet!
5 minutes to our chat!
Century Metadata Chats
Century Metadata Chats
Euro chat in 15!
Century Metadata Chats
Century Metadata Chats
For some reason, the calendar invite for the meeting now says "Invalid meeting".
Try for now...
Proton Meet
Proton Meet is a video conferencing tool that brings end-to-end encryption to your online calls, ensuring your most sensitive meetings remain private.
Europe-friendly timezone chat in 10!
Century Metadata Chats
Fifteen minutes to the CM open call (North America-friendly time)!
Century Metadata Chats
Had a delightful chat last week with Craig Raw. He is, obviously, a proponent of open protocols. It's something I assumed, but I also assumed nobody else would want to run this service! Still, building independence in from the start is important.
The second key takeaway is that this should be an Electrum protocol extension! That makes life easier for users, (no extra dialog to choose a Century Metadata server) and for wallet devs, who already use the Electrum protocol.
So I read the Electrum protocol spec. It's restricted JSON-RPC (no \n, except at end). Fairly simple, easy to extend. Looks looks a good fit...
Three hours to the CM open call (Europe-friendly time)!
Century Metadata Chats
I screwed up my calendar and missed today's office hours "come chat about what I'm doing".
So, I'll do one tomorrow, exactly 24 hours late: 1:30pm West Coast, 4:30pm East coast (20:30 UTC).
See you there: come and ask anything!
Century Metadata is a product for Bitcoiners, because they're the only ones who have motivation to maintain their secret key. That makes this whole "public service" data model feasible: you encrypt, so we don't have to keep any secrets. We just have to make your data available.
Precision isn't appreciated any more! Brink's form was harder than I thought...


4 hours before you can hear this live :)
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When you start thinking about lasting a century, details matter! The header for the cmdata files is literally a self-describing text explaining the entire format.
See
for the gory details...
GitHub
GitHub - rustyrussell/centurymetadata: centurymetadata.org: Long-term Bitcoin Metadata Storage
centurymetadata.org: Long-term Bitcoin Metadata Storage - rustyrussell/centurymetadata
I'm going to be running weekly "office hours" (open chats) half an hour long, alternating between Europe and US friendly timezones!
Join me!
Century Metadata Chats
Working on refining my pitch deck after some feedback, and also setting up Proton mail and suite for team collaboration. Not a very "tech" day...
I asked ChatGPT to craft a pitch from some taking points. First sentence:
"Century Metadata exists because we are finally asking the wrong question."
Shit. I'm gonna have to do this myself, aren't I?