Bitcoin is quietly becoming the ultimate expert witness, forcing judges to accept a new standard of truth

Bitcoin is quietly becoming the ultimate expert witness, forcing judges to accept a new standard of truth


A satoshi can come to stand for a share in a company, a document hash, or a pointer to a land parcel held in a separate database. Remedies will need to act at the edges: ordering a bank to treat a specific output as tainted, ordering a company to reverse a token transfer on a side ledger, granting damages rather than rewriting the past. It will arrive when line judges, registrars, and in-house counsel find that checking the timechain for a transaction or a document hash has become routine, that overturning that record is more complex than living with it, and that litigants expect those checks as part of due diligence.

Author: Liam 'Akiba' Wright


Published at: 2025-12-04 23:35:38

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