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It's immutable in the sense that you only need to check the node you are interested in to verify it's history hasn't been tampered with. That can be valuable.
by nightski 3y ago
It's immutable in the sense that you only need to check the node you are interested in to verify it's history hasn't been tampered with. That can be valuable. I'm well aware that someone could create an alternative chain, but it will be different and easily noticeable.
- Retric 3y agoYou can’t actually validate a node without knowing the prior state and thus if each account contains enough tokens to preform the relevant transactions. So, it would be noticeable if every prior node and all its contents were published and people are validating the integrity of those prior nodes. Which is true of literally any public ledger. The specifics of what get published can make things more convenient as there’s more locations you can send hashes of logs than the full logs, but publishing hashes alone doesn’t do anything without those logs also being public.