Transubstantiation

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Transubstantiation
(n.)

A Christian doctrine that during Holy Communion, that wafery thing and the horrid sweet sherry is transformed into the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ, even though it still looks, and tastes, for all the world like bread and wine.

This is rather like the clever trick non-fungible tokens, and Bitcoin, are meant to have played on a distributed ledger. A piece of code is transformed into actual art or capital.

See also

• Non-fungible token
• Bitcoin
• Distributed ledger
• Bitcoin is Venice