Easy Proof, the bitcoin-based doc timestamping firm, just lately introduced official partnerships with El Salvador’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs and Ministry of Surroundings to guard
authorities information utilizing the Bitcoin blockchain expertise. The announcement was made through the Bitcoin Histórico convention on the Nationwide Theatre in San Salvador, the place CEO Carlos Toriello offered alongside OpenTimestamps creator and Bitcoin Core Contributor Peter Todd.
The collaboration marks El Salvador’s continued management in making use of Bitcoin expertise past monetary purposes. Each ministries have begun registering official paperwork on the Bitcoin blockchain, with verified information now publicly accessible via devoted authorities portals.
“Bitcoin is not only digital cash — it’s additionally a clock that nobody controls. This enables us to certify with precision the precise second a doc was created, guaranteeing its authenticity and defending the nation’s historical past ceaselessly… We’re serving to be sure that the nation’s historical past is preserved intact and might be verified straight on Bitcoin, with out intermediaries,” stated Carlos Toriello, CEO of Easy Proof, in a press launch shared with Bitcoin Journal.
The corporate has had a number of profitable pilot packages up to now, together with one in Screven County, Georgia, in the USA and one other in Guatemala, the place it had a direct affect on the 2023 elections.
This deployment builds on Easy Proof’s earlier work in El Salvador, the place CUBO+ program commencement certificates turned the primary public paperwork within the nation registered through the Bitcoin blockchain.
The Ministry of Surroundings’s timestamped paperwork, together with nationwide experiences and public recordsdata, can be found at blockchain.ambiente.gob.sv. The Ministry of Overseas Affairs gives verification of institutional experiences and information at rree.gob.sv/logros-y-memorias.
Peter Todd, creator of OpenTimestamps, the platform and protocol utilized in half to time-stamp essential information on the Bitcoin blockchain, stated within the press launch that, “With a single transaction, we are able to defend tens of millions of paperwork with out congesting the community or altering its financial operate,” noting that the system shops solely cryptographic hashes relatively than precise paperwork on Bitcoin.
The undertaking positions El Salvador as a world reference for utilizing blockchain expertise in authorities
data administration, strengthening the transparency and public belief of democratic establishments and processes, by eliminating the potential for doc tampering.
