Uniqueness: Difference between revisions

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}}The [[Blockchain]]’s unique selling point is ''[[uniqueness]]'': a single entry on the ledger is there, it is fixed, it is unique for all time and uneditable, without editing every node on the [[distributed ledger]]. Encoded into its design is a uniqueness of each digital quite alien to the engineering of the internet, which is predicated, more or less, on copying as a means of transmission. Where the regular internet not only allows lossless copying, but encourages — is ''predicated'' on — it: that’s at the heart of its [[End-to-end principle|end-to-end]] architecture — it suffers from the conceptual issue that any digital copy of an original digital artefact is, to every intent and purpose, the equal of the original, a ''copy'' of an entry on the distributed ledger is, [[ontologically]], not. By its code, it is unique. Tokens on a blockchain are to documents on the internet as Millenials are to Boomers: digitally native. They exist in, and are of, the digital realm.