okay, i have no idea what's going on :) i haven't reread this thread. i dunno where i left off. but _presently_ i have a problem where i have too much corrupted data, and i keep corrupting it, and it has reached too large a point. handling it is a priority for me. i'd like to store hashes of it somewhere that doesn't let me corrupt it. i want those hashes to be like a stone mountain, where i keep punching it and punching it and take out my hacksaw and desperately try to mess it up, and it just stays there. it turns out that opentimestamps and origintimestamps are _separate_ efforts that to me appear obfuscating and disconnecting of users from blockchains. dunno. but i already made an opentimestamps client! woohoo! i also made similar work in libtoilet. i'm not running a bitcoin peer to hash anything on its chain. and i can see that people's confidence in bitcoin's price is being whittled away with a little more precision than before. i'll try the old opentimestamps client hack out. it was at https://github.com/xloem/opentimestamps-client .