Re:Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against bl...
by philistine on Sunday January 30, 2022 @02:09PM
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None 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.
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Re:Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against bl...
by brian_cloutier on Sunday January 30, 2022 @09:32PM
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> 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.