How To Timestamp Content with Blockchain, Manually or Automatically

With timestamping your content, you can prove that you didn’t tamper with it, and you can prove at any moment in time, that you published that piece of content, a proof of existence, which is a great start to protect your valuable content.

In this article, I explain to you exactly how to timestamp your content in a blockchain.

There are several ways to do so:

  1. Timestamping your content manually;
  2. With a WordPress plugin like WordProof Timestamp;
  3. With an API, like the WordProof API.

Automatically Timestamping Your Content

The makers of the WordProof Timestamp plugin, with which you can manually timestamp your content, also offer a way to timestamp your content automatically, without the hassle of working with a blockchain wallet.

Here’s how to onboard yourself in minutes:

Start timestamping your content with blockchain in minutes. Your first 10 pieces are timestamped for free, forever.

Get a WordProof Timestamp key, which you can simply paste in the WordPress plugin. After a simple configuration, all new content and content edits will be stamped automatically.

Stamping less than 10 articles a month? Then our free plan is sufficient!

Manually Timestamping Your Content

Time needed:ย 30 minutes.

Timestamp Your Content Manually with WordProof Timestamp, in a Open Source way:

  1. Install WordProof Timestamp

    From your WordPress Dashboard, you’re able to install and activate the WordProof Timestamp plugin.

  2. Create a Blockchain Account

    Create an account on a blockchain. This can be on the EOS, Telos or Ethereum blockchain.

  3. Install a Blockchain Wallet

    Timestamping your content is a blockchain interaction. With a blockchain wallet, you’re able to interact with the blockchain.

  4. Timestamp your first Post, Page or Product

    On every Post, Page or Product in the admin, there’s now a button to timestamp your content with in the blockchain.

A video explaining the manually timestamping of your content in the blockchain is available now:

Your Blockchain Introduction in Half a Day!

4 videos which give you an in-depth kick-start in the blockchain technology and why it matters so much, and why it, literally, is our only way out in this data-monopoly society.

Watching these videos gives you a decent introduction to the world of blockchain. To watch them all, lock yourself up for 3 to 4 hours.

Ready? Here you go!

#1. A not-too-technical introduction into Blockchain to start with (~ 17 minutes):

#2. A pragmatic explanation of an Open Source company, called a Decentralized Autonomous Community, with Uber as an example (~ 14 minutes):

#3. Decentralization as the enabler of The Third Industrial Revolution

This documentary by VICE indicates why decentralization is the only path leading forward (~ 104 minutes):

#4. A more of a technical explanation by Dan Larimer, designer of the EOS.IO Blockchain Software (~ 59 min):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYAktmG1NuA