> Expensive?
Yes, I meant not free. Opentimestamps uses bitcoin transactions, which have fees, so someone has to pay. Now donations pay for it.
> I don't know what you mean by 'commitment at key creation'
That someone has to pay for opentimestamping, most likely when they create the key and publish their profile.
> The point of it would by that someone TODAY, can't start pretending to be someone who created his profile and starting posting 3 years ago
sure, that has some utility but it's not really easy to use to determine which is the "real" profile. For example in case of name-squatting or key rotations (e.g. Ben Arc multiple real profiles).
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Dividing 1 bitcoin transaction fee cost by a million gives you your "not free" number. Its silly. Nothing is free, only the sun is free. I should be paying for every step i take in life if this 'not free' logic of yours would apply.
The more its used the 'cheaper' it gets, i really dont understand. Any argument for "cost" and perhaps "spam" are same for relays.
OTS is used in elections, you really think a couple of governments and business usecases is enough to bankroll OTS for the entire world for all the things at all time? Because i do, the napkin math on this is very comfortably mathing.
1 txn can commit to an unbounded amount of publeys.
So the cost effectively is 0. This could be easily funded by a few dollars of zaps/day.