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>"cryptographically guaranteed to not be manipulated."

That is only achieved with bitcoin because of a security model that has financial value to the blocks, and a distributed system of nodes and financially-invested miners. As soon as you remove the valuable digital token from the system it all falls apart; people could just rewrite the blocks and back-date the timestamps. It's like a machine that needs all of the parts to make sense.



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