&gt; Well the use of digital certificats for timestamping is explicitely covered in Directive 1999&#x2F;93&#x2F;EC [1].<p>Not what I asked. I asked if there was any evidence indicating that courts would reject Bitcoin timestamping despite being based on the same concepts, and in several ways superior to, the old-fashioned centralized timestampers. To which your answer is apparently simply &#x27;no&#x27;.<p>&gt; looks like planning to defend yourself in court to me...<p>I know what I said.