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Authorship
Guides, insights, and answers about Bitcoin-backed timestamping,
creative sovereignty, and digital proof.
Guides
Step-by-step and conceptual guides to help creators understand digital authorship, sovereignty, and timestamping.
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Personal essays and philosophical reflections that expand the meaning of authorship and authenticity.
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Quick answers to common questions about timestamping, privacy, legality, and verification.
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Practical frameworks for digital authorship
Time Sovereignty & Creativity
Why Authentic Work Is the Ultimate Currency
In the AI age, everything can be copied except time. Learn how timestamping preserves effort as authorship.
Authorship Isn't Ownership
It's Continuity
Ownership is for objects; continuity is for ideas. Learn why authorship lives in time, not in files.
Continuity as a System
Sovereignty as a Timeline
Sovereignty isn't a mindset. It's a sequence you can't rewrite. See how continuity makes authorship enforceable.
The Continuity Practice
Execution Over Intention
A 5-step ritual for unbreakable creative proof: Capture, Hash, Anchor, Release, Compound.
Insights
Philosophical reflections on authorship & time
How AI Inspired Me to Build ProofYouWereFirst.com
When friction disappeared, so did origin
AI erased friction but also blurred origin. Here's the story that started ProofYouWereFirst.
Continuity as Communion
The Architecture of a Conscious Life
From productivity noise to coherence—how timestamping became a daily spiritual practice.
The Universe as Its Own Proof
Geometry, Memory, and the Architecture of Time
How geometry, memory, and sequence make authorship part of the cosmic design.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to common questions
How does timestamping work?
We hash your file locally, anchor that hash on Bitcoin, and generate a verifiable certificate—no uploads, no data exposure.
Is my file private?
Yes. Your file never leaves your browser. Only the cryptographic fingerprint (hash) is sent for proof.
Is this legally recognized?
Bitcoin timestamps are accepted as admissible digital evidence in multiple jurisdictions. They prove a file existed at a specific time.
Can I verify someone else's proof?
Yes—anyone can independently verify a proof on-chain using our verification page or OpenTimestamps explorer.
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