Bitmark: An early attempt to build digital property rights infrastructure.

We started Bitmark in 2014 to explore a simple but consequential question: what would digital life look like if individuals could actually own what they create and generate online? We believed that property rights, open infrastructure, and cryptographic systems could give people more agency in a world increasingly shaped by platforms. Bitmark was our effort to build that missing layer.

  • Original record designs
  • Early blocks in first working prototype (circa 2015)
  • Inspiration
  • We built a “physical harsher” to fingerprint anything with non-homogeneous surface textures. This project was sidelined to focus on data.
  • Base of the Physical Hasher.
  • Original design of a recovery code.
  • All projects need step 5.
  • Received from a friend... source unknown.
  • Mining bitmark certificates.
  • I can acknowledge your right to die. But I still hurt and wish you could have seen this.

Bitmark was built around a question I still care deeply about: how do we give people real rights and agency in a digital world? The context has changed, but the issue has not. As more of life becomes digital, people need systems that offer more than access alone. That belief continues to shape how I think about property, institutions, and the tools we build next.