A record you can recompute, rather than one you must trust

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A screenshot proves something appeared on a screen once. A hash-chained record proves it has not been edited since — and a reader can recompute it without trusting anyone.

The problem with a screenshot

A screenshot shows that something appeared on a screen once. It cannot show that the record was not edited afterwards, and a reader cannot recompute it. Almost every coupon page that offers evidence offers this.

What chaining does

Each entry's identifier is a hash of the previous entry's identifier joined to that entry's own canonical record. Change any figure in any earlier entry and its hash changes — and so does every hash after it, visibly, to anyone who recomputes the chain.

How to check it without trusting us

The ledger publishes each entry's canonical record and both hashes, so the check needs nothing from us beyond the page. There are 138 entries across 43 days. Recomputing them requires only a SHA-256 implementation, which every operating system already has.

What this does not tell you

That the original readings were honest. Chaining proves the record has not been altered since it was written. It cannot prove what was written was true, and no cryptography can.

What chaining cannot prove

A chain shows that no entry was altered after it was written. It cannot show that what was written was true, and it cannot show that entries were not withheld before being written at all. Those limits are worth stating plainly, because a cryptographic mechanism invites more confidence than it earns. What it does buy is narrow and real: nobody, including us, can quietly revise a past result once it is published.

What hashing actually guarantees

Each entry carries a hash computed from the previous entry's hash plus its own contents. Change any earlier entry and every hash after it stops matching, so the alteration is visible without needing a copy of the original. That is the whole mechanism, and its strength is narrow and real: it makes silent edits to history detectable by anyone who checks the chain.

What it does not guarantee

It says nothing about whether an entry was true when written. A chained record of fabricated readings is internally consistent and completely worthless, and no amount of cryptography fixes that. Tamper-evidence protects the past from the publisher; it does not protect the reader from a publisher who was wrong or dishonest on the day. It is worth having for exactly one reason — it removes the easiest way to quietly improve a record after the fact — and claiming more for it than that is overselling.

How to check a chain without special tools

You do not need to recompute anything to get most of the value. Look at whether entries exist for days where nothing interesting happened, because a record that only has entries on good days has been curated regardless of how it is hashed. Look at whether corrections appear as new entries rather than as edits to old ones. Those two properties are visible by reading, and they are what the hashing is there to protect. The cryptography makes silent editing detectable; the editorial habit of logging dull days and admitted errors is what makes the record worth protecting in the first place.

Where to check this independently

The claims on this page about a record you can recompute, rather than one you must trust can be checked against sources outside this site:

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