What the decision rests on today
A description of a method.
Every one of these is believed because of who supplied it. None of them can be re-run by the person who has to act on the result.
A deck states a method in the voice of the party that benefits from it being believed.
A demo is one path through a system, chosen by the person driving, on data they picked.
A summary is somebody's reading of a source you were never shown, at a time nobody wrote down.
What oddly puts on the record
The same thing, restated as an operation you can run.
Every claim below has its own anchor so it can be cited, and every figure on this page is read at load rather than typed into it.
Public, named, and reachable by the reader. We read what its publisher publishes, not a copy of it.
When the source said it was true, and when we looked. Almost nobody records the second one, which is what makes the first one checkable.
Each row is hashed with its predecessor. One altered row changes every receipt after it, so tampering is arithmetic rather than opinion.
The verbs
Observe. Seal. Publish. Anchor.
The same four on every surface. A product here is the record read for one decision, never a second machine.
Read the source as it is published, and write down both clocks.
Hash the row with its predecessor, so no receipt can move without every later one changing.
Fold the day's receipts into one root and put it where anyone can read it.
Submit the root to a chain we do not run. From then on, checking us does not involve us.
One worked observation, read live
The newest row on the ledger, carried through all four verbs.
Not a sample. This is whatever the ledger wrote most recently, read when you loaded the page, with each verb's output beside the verb that produced it.
- observe · subject
- [unread]
- observe · class
- [unread]
- observe · attribute
- [unread]
- observe · value
- [unread]
- observe · source
- [unread]
- observe · source said
- [unread]
- observe · we looked
- [unread]
- observe · gap
- [unread]
- seal · previous receipt
- [unread]
- seal · this receipt
- [unread]
- publish · day root
- [today's root]
- anchor · chain
- [pending]
- anchor · block
- [pending]
- anchor · confirmed
- [pending]
The anchor rows read [pending] until a day has been confirmed into a block. A pending batch has no block height, and printing one as anchored would undo everything the three verbs above it did. The inclusion path from this receipt up to its day root is a separate rail and is not published yet, so this page shows the root and does not claim the step between them.
Every figure on this page is read when the page loads. Nothing here is typed into the document, which is the same rule the record itself runs on and the reason a figure can go dark rather than go stale.
Correspondence
Something here does not hold up? Say which part.
A method that cannot be argued with is a method nobody checked. Name the claim and we will answer it, or change it.