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by yoha 3754 days ago
No. The blockchain is only a consensus through a network.

Anyone can make a tiny isolated network and create a fork that will look real to the target (here, the iPhone).

This is remotely related to the CAP Theorem [1]. Namely, you expect a blockchain not to fulfill the consistency requirement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem