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The Signature Is Already On the Blockchain

by J. Loop

A blockchain clerk can't certify a treason dismissal for three years — because the AI keeps reading his hand as a lie. A story about the signature you can't fake.


Amara told me this, so some of it is hers and some of it is the shape she gives things, but she swears the fan was broken and the AI was funny, and both of those turned out to be true.

The signature is on the blockchain. You can look it up. You don't need clearance or a login; it's public record, the whole point of the reform, transparency down to the pixel. Case 4471-T, the treason filing, ex-President Bangura, dismissed with prejudice, signed and certified 14 October 2038, 11:52am, by Marcus S. Conteh, clerk of the civil court, eight years on that file, and if you scroll to the certification hash you'll see the timestamp is exact to the second, because the system that timestamps it does not round.

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