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So in case you get mismatches, you can then have a bunch of humans figure out what happened and how to recover from it, and if necessary, involve a court system to settle disputes based on the evidence that exists.

This type of human resolution is needed even in blockchain systems: people will try and fork, people will try to launch 51% attacks, software will have bugs. In the end, a blockchain is a bunch of bits. People believing it and acting based on it is what matters.



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