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RE: The Steemit Daily Dose: @mindhunter Discusses The Reward Pool Replenishment And Asks 'Are We Here To Create And Build A Community Or Are We Here Just To Make Money?'
You've added a restriction that it must be changeable by an individual. No such restriction should be expected when calling something immutable. Immutable as a term on it's own in binary, it is changeable or not. I also specifically stated that it relies on the definition of the blockchain being the currently accepted consensus. That does not include backups and rogue chains.
And I said that it's still immutable even in the scenario of all the witness computers getting infected and compromised.
It's of no consequence whatever hypothetical scenario you want to argue, if you cannot change the data then it's immutable. Obviously we don't live in binary, we live in the real world, and the real world is full of paradoxical things, and something being 0 or 1 is of no consequence to the real world.
In the fully possible scenario I described it is clearly not immutable. Not everything is a paradox and our universe has binaries.
Fully possible it's of no consequence, the paradox stands, it's both changeable and immutable. No not everything is a paradox, but what does our universe has binaries mean anyway, does that mean this instance isn't a paradox?
You mean that you didn't read my question the first time right, asking if you can change it, obviously a master group of hackers with unlimited resources can change it, but it's of no consequence just as it's of no consequence that a consensus can happen and data can be removed.
The probability of it happening has no bearing on whether it is immutable. The ability to change it is baked into it's design. Just like ethereum is not immutable they changed the blockchain.
It's not the probability, its the fact that not one user has such ability, not ned, not smooth. We are going around in circles, you cannot appreciate the paradox and I won't compromise and call it anything other than immutable regardless of how many times it's pointed out that it can be changed.