[KirinDave]

I think when we say "impossible" we mean "well sure any old thing is possible but there are hard limits on what's consistent and sane."

I will go read the docs in more detail but what you've just describes sounds pretty awful. Perhaps it's more just you being glib about non-cooperative actors in an environment that expects cooperatuon, but an "available balance" abstractions are a pretty reasonable thing to ask for, if only to encode natural numbers.

[kba]

I'm not one to dictate how technologies like these are to be used, but all I can say is that in the almost two years I've been working on Webstrates – a collaborative system using a very similar technology – this has not been an issue.

But surely, if you allow malicious actors to modify your document, then that's your problem right there.