Simple Proof, the bitcoin-based doc timestamping firm, 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 in the course of the Bitcoin Histórico convention on the Nationwide Theatre in San Salvador, the place CEO Carlos Toriello introduced 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 by way of devoted authorities portals.
“Bitcoin isn’t just digital cash — it’s additionally a clock that nobody controls. This permits us to certify with precision the precise second a doc was created, guaranteeing its authenticity and defending the nation’s historical past eternally… We’re serving to be sure that the nation’s historical past is preserved intact and might be verified immediately on Bitcoin, with out intermediaries,” mentioned Carlos Toriello, CEO of Easy Proof, in a press launch shared with Bitcoin Journal.
The corporate has had a number of profitable pilot packages previously, together with one in Screven County, Georgia, in the United States 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 grew to become the primary public paperwork within the nation registered by way of 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 affords 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 vital information on the Bitcoin blockchain, mentioned within the press launch that, “With a single transaction, we will shield hundreds of thousands of paperwork with out congesting the community or altering its financial perform,” noting that the system shops solely cryptographic hashes moderately than precise paperwork on Bitcoin.
The undertaking positions El Salvador as a worldwide 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.
