Sebastiaan van der Lans, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Introduces WordProof. The €1,000,000 EU award-winning 'fake news buster'. A plug-in for WordPress and other popular content and commerce platforms that helps people, search engines, and social media to verify your content! About Sebastiaan Sebastiaan van der Lans has a big heart for open source. In 2006 he co-founded Amsterdam’s first WordPress agency Van Ons, which is a leading digital agency now, serving over 100M page views a year. In 2019, Sebastiaan founded WordProof, the winner of Europe’s Blockchains for Social Good contest 2020. Sebastiaan has a strong passion for improving the playing fields of publishing, SEO, and e-commerce. Solutions by his teams are actively being used by over 100.000 organizations. Let’s fix the broken web, together! WordProof Academy: https://wordproof.com/academy Getting started: https://wordproof.com/demo

1. Fixing Fake News
and Online Fraud
With #Blockchain
TimestampsWordProof.com
Sebastiaan van der Lans
Founder & CEO
@delans @WordProofio
#TrustedWeb

2. Fixing Fake News
and Online Fraud
With #Blockchain
Timestamps

3. Fixing Fake News
and Online Fraud
With #Blockchain
Timestamps

5. To save the world, we need
to fix the internet!

6. Trust arises from
Transparency and
Accountability.

7. Trust arises from
Transparency and
Accountability.

9. Dublin Core

11. In five years from now,
if you don’t timestamp your
articles on the blockchain,
you’re going to be
considered a fraud.

12. What is a Timestamp?
WordProof.com Sebastiaan van der Lans
Founder & CEO
@delans @WordProofio
#TrustedWeb

13. In 1991, blockchain was
invented for Timestamping.

14. Publishers
WordProof.com Sebastiaan van der Lans
Founder & CEO
@delans @WordProofio
#TrustedWeb

15. Currently ...

16. See it live

17. See it live

18. eCommerce
WordProof.com Sebastiaan van der Lans
Founder & CEO
@delans @WordProofio
#TrustedWeb

21. Copyright
WordProof.com Sebastiaan van der Lans
Founder & CEO
@delans @WordProofio
#TrustedWeb

24. Search Engine
Optimization
WordProof.com Sebastiaan van der Lans
Founder & CEO
@delans @WordProofio
#TrustedWeb

25. 1. Changing the date
2. Duplicate Content
Problems in SEO, solvable
with Blockchain
Timestamps

27. Outputting
Blockchain
Timestamps
Schema

28. 🇪🇺 Policy &
Standardization

29. Non-Timestamped Sites Are Not Secure
No Proof-of-Existence & nobody took Accountability
Timestamp Your Content in an Open way
to prove existence and take accountability
Learn more on Timestamps and SEO

30. Fixing Fake News
and Online Fraud
With #Blockchain
TimestampsWordProof.com
Sebastiaan van der Lans
Founder & CEO
@delans @WordProofio
#TrustedWeb