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Re:IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – ... by tal8d on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:20AM (#26014378)
That might be a concern if you try to cram every possible property of the legal code into the blockchain. So maybe don't do that. But if you do, the whole thing is extensible - so it is possible. But don't.
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Re:IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – ... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:29AM (#26014468)
> maybe don't do that

A partial log of property rights is no longer a property rights register. It's reference material. Annotations.

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Re:IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – ... by tal8d on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:37AM (#26014552)
Pack it up Identrust, digitally signed documents and timestamping are is just annotations.
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