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Operations
The museum verifies strangers' objects in your browser. This page points the same scrutiny at the museum itself: how fast objects anchor, what the curators decided, and whether the maintenance gates — chain reconciliation, verifier integrity, vault integrity — passed their last run.
The collection
- Public objects
- 55
- Bitcoin-confirmed
- 55
- Anchor coverage
- 100%
- Whole-collection anchor
- current
55 objects anchored at seq 124, 2026-10-17T13:34:54+00:00
By wing
Genesis Hall · 2 · Milestones · 23 · Notable Artifacts · 20 · The Hall of False Firsts · 6 · The Hall of Firsts · 2 · The Memorial Wing · 2
Anchoring latency
Hours from accession to Bitcoin confirmation, for objects anchored in the last 90 days. The pipeline's promise: hours, not days — and this series is how that promise is kept honest.
- Anchored, 90 days
- 12
- Median latency
- 2 h
- Worst, 90 days
- 3.6 h
Curation
31 editorial decisions recorded in the anchored ledger.
accessioned · 31 ·
Recorder liveness
OK — OK — bound 6h00m, 86 checkpoints, 41 heartbeats, since last certificate 3h10m; 42 window(s) predate the promise and are not graded; committed by operator, earliest anchored evidence 2026-10-17T17:10:04Z (first_heartbeat), 6h53m on the keeper's word. Last certificate anchored 2026-10-27T10:30:04+00:00; graded 2026-10-27T13:41:02+00:00. The promise has been in force since 2026-10-17T10:16:36+00:00; 42 earlier window(s) predate it and are not graded.
The museum's recorder committed to a certificate at least every 6 hours; an idle recorder leaves a certificate of emptiness that a silent one cannot. Read it yourself: python3 liveness-verify.py https://touchstone.cv/.well-known/touchstone/checkpoints/rec_01kw45gaachbss7v4qyaf90nz9 from touchstone.cv.
Maintenance gates
Three checks run on a schedule and gate every deploy. Their last runs are recorded by the commands themselves; a gate that has never run says so.
| Gate | Last run | Result |
|---|---|---|
| catalog-anchor | 2026-10-27 08:50 UTC | ✓ 55 object(s), digest 44bd29d03d09…, seq 124 — collection unchanged, anchor kept; published to the served path |
| touchstone-reconcile | 2026-10-27 08:20 UTC | ✓ chain agrees with local pointers (124 entries); 5 known orphan(s) acknowledged, 0 new |
| verifiers | 2026-10-27 09:30 UTC | ✓ 3 verifier(s) match the manifest |
| content-verify | 2026-10-27 09:10 UTC | ✓ 58 object(s) re-hashed, all intact |
| backup-verify | 2026-10-27 08:45 UTC | ✓ 58 vault file(s) verified against the dump |
| recorder-liveness | 2026-10-27 13:41 UTC | ✓ OK — bound 6h00m, 86 checkpoints, 41 heartbeats, since last certificate 3h10m; 42 window(s) predate the promise and are not graded; committed by operator, earliest anchored evidence 2026-10-17T17:10:04Z (first_heartbeat), 6h53m on the keeper's word |
Verify any of this yourself: catalog.json (recompute the digest),
ledger.json (re-derive the decisions),
verifiers.json (hash the checkers),
or run catalog-verify.py — trusting no museum code.