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by Yizahi 1190 days ago
We don't need detecting unwanted manipulation (clarification, we do, but that is a small and rare problem), we need to deal with expected manipulation. Let's say I was phished and some tokenbro across the globe now owns the NFT with a deed to my house, initially this info also got propagated into the centralised DB with stores actual data with deeds and related stuff. I go to police, then to the court and they reaffirm my ownership of the house. Then they restore correct information in the CDB. Now everything is all right, excep that blockchain is now outdated and show a tokenbro as an owner of NFT pointing to deed for my house, and hash is of course not matching now. Now what? Code is not law (surprise), and blockchain doesn't override laws. It is technically useless for this task.