The #blockchain is not 'ceasing to be a neutral mechanical system.'
It never was neutral. People always made political decisions that impacted others, & continue to do so. True of all blockchains.
I could go on (for a while), but for now I will leave it at #codersasfiduciaries. https://twitter.com/TokenHash/status/963987749521866752 …
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I think people should just start saying 'tamper-proof'. Immutability creates too much confusion.
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isn’t “tamper-proof” also a relative term?

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yea.... you can prove it's been tampered with. A lot of good that does.
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Exactly. The point is not that they can never be changed ('immutable') but rather that it's hard to do so and that if this happens it is unlikely to go unnoticed ('tamper-proof').
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I like "tamper-evident."
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Tamper evident captures one aspect. The other material aspect is that these systems use financial incentives to secure data. So maybe try: "financially secured" data or, to describe the feature, "financially infeasible record malleability" (FIRM is a good acronym)
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I've been going with hard to change, but maybe "costly to change" (CTC) :)
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Financially infeasable ledger malleability = FILM. I can do this all day.
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In the context of blockchains, BTC is immutable to the degree that creating & reversing the txs roughly costs the same amount of energy. This amount of energy *is* neutral: it doesn’t matter who you are, it will cost the same.
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