Data Publication on the Bitcoin Blockchain

Why do people publish data on Bitcoin? What does that accomplish? How are they doing it? Is this an attack on Bitcoin? With the recent fuss about people putting whole JPEGs on Bitcoin - even filling up entire blocks - we'll go through this issue and what it means for Bitcoin.

Peter Todd is the founder of OpenTimestamps and a former Bitcoin Core developer. But mainly known for giving a lot of talks.

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