For distillery profiles, distinguish custody, timestamp and file integrity from corroboration of a founding, ownership or production claim.
Author's critique of proposed blockchain uses involving assets outside the network; PDF-sheet locators.
A ledger can preserve or validate records about an external asset without establishing the truth of the physical-world information supplied to it.
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Evidence and application
Sheets265–266 supply a useful boundary for the Academy: the reliability of the record-keeping system and the truth of the recorded claim are separate questions. A source file hash can support custody; historical claims still need attributable records and corroboration.
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