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Immutable ledgers are a godsend and are useful in many different contexts: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by brian_cloutier 5y ago
Immutable ledgers are a godsend and are useful in many different contexts:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_notebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_notebook
- https://www.newamerica.org/digital-impact-governance-initiative/digital-impact-and-governance-initiative-projects/digi-blogs/project-capsule-georgia-land-titling-system/ https://www.newamerica.org/digital-impact-governance-initiat...
Adjustments needed for shipping, banking, or taxes are trivially accommodated; those are additional events which can be appended to the log.
- philistine 5y agoNone of your examples are all, at the same time, immutable, public, or ledgers. The Georgian land thingie is the most interesting, but a Georgian judge could definitely order a change in ownership due to incorrect data entered into the ledger, so it's not immutable.
- brian_cloutier 5y ago> a Georgian judge could definitely order a change in ownership due to incorrect data entered into the ledger, so it's not immutable. There seems to be a misunderstanding. The ledger is immutable. That doesn't mean the state is immutable! Immutable state is not very useful. A judge could absolutely order that the ownership of some parcel is changed, but the change will appear as a separate record and everybody will be able to see the change and nobody can credibly deny that the change happened, not even the judge.