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How?
Use the exact existing record from your system. A file date does not verify its contents or the action it describes.
Add link and screenshots
The link is recorded, not fetched or verified.
enterprise
Keep the approval record behind the release.
Keep the approval record behind the release. Keep the approval and the exact item it refers to. Date that record before your release process continues.
Your photos and files stay on your device, so keep them.
EXAMPLE
Approval gates
1 Nov 2026
Authority time: 14:02 UTC · example
Bitcoin block time: 14:10 UTC · example
Last checked: 15:02 UTC · example
Bitcoin block time: 14:10 UTC · example
Last checked: 15:02 UTC · example
✓ Dated◆ Permanent
Now keep it safe: three things
- Keep your photos and files unedited. The receipt only matches the originals. Put them in an album such as “My records”.
- Save this receipt to your camera roll.
Keep the receipt file too. The image is a handy copy; checking needs the file.
- Email it to yourself.Email it to myself
Your mail app opens a draft. Attach your receipt image and receipt file. Don’t attach your photos or documents. Timevolt does not send it or know whether it was sent.
Your record, one step at a time.
Your photos and files stay on your device, so keep them.
Local preview: files are fingerprinted here. Notes and progress stay in this browser. Keep downloaded copies; browser storage is not a backup.
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How?
Record the date, time, place and who you spoke to. New notes are saved separately rather than editing an old note.
How to keep notes that hold upWrite it down
By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.
By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.
How to keep notes that hold up
Write notes as soon as you can. Keep the original account rather than replacing it later; the venue decides what weight it gets.
- Write it down straight away, on paper or in the box on a step.
- Put the date, time and place at the top, and who you spoke to.
- Use their words where you can; separate what you saw from what you were told.
- Sign or initial a paper note, photograph it and add the photo.
- Never edit an old note. Add a new dated entry when something changes. A device save time is not independent time evidence or proof of event order.
Approval gates
Approval gates
01 · Keep the exact files
Keep the signed approval and the exact build, invoice or access request it refers to in your existing approval system.
Use the source system’s own record.
Approval gates
02 · Date the file’s code
Your device fingerprints the selected file or manifest. Dated follows an independent timestamp; Permanent follows Bitcoin anchoring.
An independent time, tied to the exact bytes.
Approval gates
03 · Keep the evidence
Keep the approval log, release record and the checks performed by your own release system. A file receipt does not control a release.
Keep the originals too. A changed or compressed copy has a different fingerprint.
Try a file. It stays here.
Make a test receipt on this device.
By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.
or drop a file here
Real cases: why the saved copy matters.
Real cases where dated records mattered. We don’t claim a time receipt would have changed the result.
US federal · 2007
Board minutes must reflect real approval dates
The SEC said board notes described a fake meeting. A former finance chief settled with no admission or denial, a court order and a fine. No result was reported for another officer; the firm was not charged because it helped the SEC.
Regulator's announcement of allegations and a settlement; the legal chief's final outcome is not reported.
Summarized on Oct 29, 2026
Read the announcement ›US federal · 2008
Writing an old date is not timely approval
The SEC said four officers chose grant dates later and wrote approvals as if signed then. It sought fines and work bans. No final result was reported.
The source reports a filed complaint, not a completed case.
Summarized on Oct 29, 2026
Read the report ›What courts, schemes and regulators say.
Positions below refer to the cited rule or record type, not endorsement of Timevolt. This service is not represented as an eIDAS qualified timestamp provider. A non-qualified timestamp does not receive the qualified timestamp presumption.
Federal courts (Federal Rules of Evidence)
FRE 902(13) and 902(14) let electronic records and copied data be authenticated by a qualified person's certification, including by hash value, with advance written notice.
Supports using a hash to show a file is the same as an original. It says nothing specific about blockchain or RFC 3161 timestamps; weight is still for the court.
Source summary as of 2026-10-28. Check the current source and applicable local rules.
Read the sourceeIDAS Regulation (EU) 910/2014, Art. 41-42
Electronic or nonqualified form alone is not a reason to deny a timestamp legal effect or admissibility. Other evidence requirements still apply. Article 41(2) addresses the qualified-timestamp presumption, and Article 42 its requirements; provider status alone is insufficient.
This describes the statutory evidence rule, not Timevolt qualification or a guarantee of admission. No claim about cross-border recognition is made here.
Source summary as of 2026-10-28. Check the current source and applicable local rules.
Read the sourceSOX IT general controls audits (external auditors)
Commentary says auditors want a system of record capturing requester, approver, justification and timestamp, with segregation of duties; approvals in chat do not satisfy them.
Sources are vendor blogs, not PCAOB or SEC text; none was found mentioning trusted timestamps. Treat the Timevolt receipt as a supplement to the approval system's log, not a replacement.
Source summary as of 2026-10-28. Check the current source and applicable local rules.
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Proves / Doesn’t prove
Proves
A completed time receipt shows that the exact selected file existed by the independently witnessed time. You can check whether a later copy has the same bytes. It does not establish creation time, authorship, identity, event order, location or the truth of the contents.
Doesn’t prove
It does not prove who approved, that the approver had authority, that the approval was reasoned or lawful, or that the thing approved is the thing later deployed or paid, unless the receipt is also made of that exact file.
The receipt cannot prevent a false approval being dated, show authority or prove the approved item was later deployed or paid.
These are the bounds of a completed proof. The local tester does not establish any time. The chosen court, scheme or regulator decides what to accept.
Questions, answered plainly.
Your file stays on your device. During normal receipt creation, your device sends a randomized code made from its fingerprint, plus encrypted recovery data. It doesn't send the plain fingerprint or the random value that opens the code. Keep the original file and the complete receipt for checking. Privacy Policy.
What does a time receipt on an approval actually show?
A completed time receipt shows that the exact selected file existed by the independently witnessed time. You can check whether a later copy has the same bytes. It does not establish creation time, authorship, identity, event order, location or the truth of the contents.
Does it prove who approved?
No. It does not show who made or approved the file. Pair it with your approval system's record of the named approver.
Is my approval document uploaded to Timevolt?
Your file stays on your device. During normal receipt creation, your device sends a randomized code made from its fingerprint, plus encrypted recovery data. It doesn't send the plain fingerprint or the random value that opens the code. Keep the original file and the complete receipt for checking.
Why not just rely on the timestamp in my ticketing or approval tool?
A completed time receipt shows that the exact selected file existed by the independently witnessed time. You can check whether a later copy has the same bytes. It does not establish creation time, authorship, identity, event order, location or the truth of the contents. Keep original source records, native entry history and separate process evidence; a time receipt does not continuously monitor the file.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerWhy does the order of approval and change matter?
Several published regulator cases involved approvals that were allegedly written after the fact and dated earlier, so whether approval truly came first was the heart of the dispute.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerWill a court or auditor accept it?
We can't promise that. US rules let a court accept hash-verified electronic copies if properly certified, and in the EU only qualified time stamps carry a legal presumption. Whether a receipt is enough is for the venue to decide.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerWhat about approvals made in a chat message?
Auditors say chat approvals are weak evidence. Export the approval into a file, lock it, and keep the receipt with the change record.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerCan a system block a release until a receipt exists?
Your release system must implement and enforce its own approval checks and handle failures. Keep its approval, deployment and audit records. This site does not control releases.
The file tester runs on your device. It does not issue a timestamp or take a payment.
Keep the records you already have.
Keep your original files and any existing official records while the receipt service is being prepared.