GodCypher timestamps

A GodCypher timestamp proves that at least two observatories, each with its own location solution, published the same earthquake at this place, at this time and of this strength, and that SourceLess digested their reports and sealed that digest with its own signature at a moment read against national time labs. It does not prove the observatories were right, only that they agreed, and it says nothing about what the earthquake did.

GodCypher adds two things. Its counter-validator signs the digest together with a USGS earthquake window, so the countersigned timestamp provably did not exist before the newest earthquake in that window happened: a lower bound, never an upper one. And its three-party envelope seals the raw evidence so that only the printer, the archive and the witness together can open it.

It is not on the chain yet: until its anchor is a block, a timestamp rests on the SourceLess seal, the Roughtime signatures and the countersign, which anyone can check and nobody can yet find in a block. It is a timestamp anyone can re-check, and claims no legal standing.

Every timestamp here carries two GodCypher layers beside its digest. The countersign: GodCypher’s Urdarbrunn counter-validator signs the timestamp’s digest together with the digest of a published USGS earthquake window, so the countersigned timestamp did not exist before the newest earthquake in it. The sealed evidence: the raw observatory answers, laboratory packets and Roughtime responses, sealed with a post-quantum three-party envelope that only the printer, the archive and the witness together can open.

How a GodCypher timestamp works: the envelope, the counter-validator, every outcome the verifier reports, and what runs today.

A filled mark is an observatory whose own solution agrees; an outlined one reported the earthquake with another’s solution or with values that do not agree; a faint one did not report it.