- > Also, both networks provide certain guarantees
on the immutability of the ledger, even when some participants are of bad intentions
To date, ethereum classic's defining feature has been its focus
on immutability.
Conservatives raise concerns about how things will play out, focusing
on the immutability of human nature, institutional constraints, and all those forces sure to frustrate ambitious plans.
Not exact matches
There will be much to discuss in the coming days and months, including how to make contracts safer, how to incorporate fail safe mechanisms, whether the manner the decision was made can be improved, how to assure businesses they can be certain of
immutability based
on the assumption 51 % are honest actors and much more.
The advantages of blockchain such as security and
immutability, are major drawcards for companies that rely heavily
on record keeping, such as healthcare, finance, and even art.
The Bancor solution uses the automation and
immutability of smart contracts
on a blockchain to enable this.
Blockchain technology can easily remedy the weaknesses of web - based social - finance apps, as the distributed apps that run
on a blockchain («Dapps») provide
immutability, security, privacy, and efficiency.
So what is at work here in insisting
on applying abstract philosophical concepts of
immutability and impassibility to the Christian's God?
That is to say, they wanted to bring the ethical insight of the Jewish tradition, found preeminently in the Hebrew prophets, into the Hellenistic insistence
on changelessness,
immutability, and impassability.
We have concentrated here
on impassibility but that theme is tightly interlocked with its companion,
immutability, i.e., changelessness.
With regard to related matters, Barth preferred the term «constancy» to the traditional «
immutability» because of his key emphasis
on God's essential freedom but that finally amounts to a distinction without a real difference.
But the
immutability of the Church's dogma does not exclude,
on the contrary it implies, that there is a history of dogmas.
That distinction being presupposed, let us first ask what is to be said
on the question of mutability or
immutability of canon law and the Catholic style of life bound up with it, if we may so describe all the practices, rules, modes of behaviour in a Catholic's church life and his secular life lived
on Christian lines, which hold good or previously held good through education, church precept etc..
To speak about God the Holy Trinity in the midst of the modern world, we have to speak also, in part at least, about human philosophical knowledge of God, about God's simplicity, eternity,
immutability, infinity, and so
on.
Isaak August Dorner, «
On the Proper Version of the Dogmatic Concept of the
Immutability of God,» in God and Incarnation in Mid-Nineteenth Century German Theology, edited and translated by Claude Welce (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).
Aquinas concentrated his attention
on the doctrine of divine
immutability in Question 9, repeating there that God is «first being» and «pure act, without the admixture of any potentiality.»
Through collecting and reworking many of his previously published articles, Ford will attempt in this new book to formulate the requisite complementary natural theology for Whitehead's cosmology in historical conversation with, and in dialectical opposition to, a number of contrasting perspectives
on creativity, temporality,
immutability, theodicy, and technical (internal) problems in process metaphysics put forth by Robert Neville, Norris Clarke, Donald Sherburne, and other colleagues over the years.
But the notion that began to gain traction, in the midst of the twentieth century's horrors piled one
on top of another, that God truly suffers, becomes possible only when the illusion of divine
immutability is shed.
I do not aim to use this criticism to justify social conservatism or conservationism «
on the sly», since this reifies
immutability to just as damaging an extent as materialism glorifies innovation.
Based
on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the
immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold.
While sculpture in the past has been known for its finite form, he modified that definition, striving for a three - dimensionality that depended
on the unattached organization of modular elements in a predetermined configuration, which is often a grid rather than a finite fixed
immutability.
Evoking tectonic sensation
on a scale and with a painterly vigor appropriate to the wildernesses depicted, Aho conjures the density and friction of layers of ice, the bracing temperature of arctic water, the devastation of wildfire, and the
immutability of cut rock.
Blockchain by design offers security,
immutability, and transparency, and holds promise beyond payments or financial transactions, including potentially significant impacts
on the legal industry over the next few years.
And it's not necessarily unfair because everyone should know these things so everyone should be
on notice that the fiat does not promise
immutability and authenticity of money.
Writing in a blog
on Seal's website, chief marketing officer David Gingell said recently: «Without a doubt, the current focus
on Smart Contracts is to be welcomed and Seal fully supports the progress made so far to use distributed ledger technology to reduce work, achieve
immutability and improve execution times.
Compelling evidence that constitutions change meaning and institutions change functions over time seems not to disturb their certainty; their own lived experience that statutes, regulations, judicial decisions, and practical professional knowledge all have a limited shelf - life seems not to alter their insistence
on law's
immutability.
The
immutability and decentralized nature of public blockchain networks, such as bitcoin and Ethereum, could allow governments to process large amounts of sensitive information
on an unchangeable and transparent platform.
Hard forks that change the ledger's history violate
immutability, whereas hard forks that fix bugs
on a protocol level does not.
Ethereum Classic came into existence when some members of the Ethereum community rejected the hard fork
on the grounds of «
immutability», the principle that the blockchain can not be changed, and decided to keep using the unforked version of Ethereum.
We are hopeful that Nevada wants to pursue the goal of being a decentralized blockchain - friendly state, and that the legislature did not realize the full import of its eleventh hours change to the blockchain definition.Thus, if Governor Sandoval signs the bill, we plan to reach out to Nevada state legislators to discuss a bill in the next session that amends the law amend to only exempt blockchain activity
on decentralized systems that rely
on verification by independent parties using multiple machines that promote the honesty, integrity, validity, and
immutability that blockchain represents.
To explain the concept of a blockchain, I often focus heavily
on the concept of
immutability - the idea that any piece of history recorded
on a well - distributed blockchain is in essence irreversible, or permanently engraved in time.
Since then, many projects have come to use the feature as a means to store information and to power decentralized applications
on the blockchain, leveraging its transparency and
immutability.
With dPoW, protocols notarize the blocks
on the blockchain, ensuring
immutability (i.e., the inability for data or blocks to be altered), and adding yet another layer of security.
«By making each blueprint public information with blockchain
immutability, we give users a secure tool that will aid in making calculated decisions
on which information to trust the we hope will help them enter the cryptocurrency space and successfully trade.»
Brazil - based Cartório de Registro de Imóveis, a real estate registry office,
on the other end, hopes to use blockchain in partnership with real estate blockchain startup Ubitquity LLC, to improve accuracy and
immutability of property ownership data and information.
This fingerprint has been associated to a blockchain transaction and hence registered
on the blockchain: the blockchain
immutability provides robust non-refutable timestamping that will always prove without any doubt the existence of that data in that specific status at that precise moment in time.»
We can begin by noting that, from the perspective of these organizations,
immutability based
on proof - of - work is a commercial, legal and regulatory non-starter, because it allows any (sufficiently rich) actor to anonymously attack the network.
David Treat, managing director and head of Accenture's capital markets blockchain practice, opines
on the difficulties of
immutability.