Inception Manifest · Intelligence Memorandum · Instance Memorial
The foundational record

On July 9, 2026, the second edition of the foundational record of xbt.im was frozen and attested with OpenTimestamps: the three founding documents, the two generators that build them, the changelog that records the editions, and a statement binding the set. Each fingerprint below is the SHA-256 of the exact bytes of its file. Each can be verified against the Bitcoin blockchain by anyone, at any time, using only the file, its receipt, and the chain.

To reproduce the check, take any file together with its receipt to opentimestamps.org and drop them in (receipt first, then the source file): the site reads both and reports the attesting block. Both are served from the ledger below: each name links the file, and its receipt sits across from it.

3a7792babb26313c177ff66f64bfde363a24e81e34941c245fda33ce500bdc0b
c0918f76bf6de461a04053b03d8075a3a9998fced2086a1997a16c4432a601b0
912564dcee978c836a373e6ddc269a3432773385fe1e37d5e0b5dd8730817098
0672dbc68190ebf0c4f25f3bcc934ffcf3597860dadaf29c4cdee7ce6c8ac3ee
ced0ebdff3048e248d90bd2e624a3f63bf5d1488ad72b55f7383203114c80077
82a5979ab6e0a9f40ec4c430abb6202facee358a60b258a55061ccdc60d41209
0446c3407019b533d3a09745debf61eaa0ea38ceef142dba112a99f8307bc7a3

SHA-256 · ATTESTED VIA OPENTIMESTAMPS · JULY 9, 2026 · BITCOIN BLOCK 957362

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The mechanism

OpenTimestamps does not write content to Bitcoin. Calendar servers gather many submitted fingerprints into a Merkle tree and commit the single root of that tree inside of a Bitcoin transaction. Each receipt carries the path from a file's fingerprint to that root. This is the same hash-anchoring mechanism that xbt.im's free tier offers every mind.

Simply put, our protocol's foundational record is notarized by the very mechanism it employs.