# Public record

`kaal:entity:public-record`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `public-record`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 2 works, 2019 to 2019.

**2019**

- [3405401-035](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-035) [design/argued] -- Similar business deals and contracts between counterparties must be organized and reviewable by the public, and the transaction history has to be fully openly viewable and verifiable so that parties can see that counterparties will perform as expected.
  > The history of transactions has to be fully openly viewable and verifiable, so that business parties can see that their counterparties will perform as expected.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Commerce – A Primer on Why Decentralized Reputation Verification Systems Are Needed (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405401
- [3405401-036](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-036) [condition/argued] -- A functioning decentralized reputation system requires that counterparties' actions in decentralized commerce endure and become part of a public record: their actions must stick and become part of a meaningful precedence system.
  > This necessitates that counterparties' actions in decentralized commerce endure and become part of a public record. In other words, counterparties' actions need to stick. Their actions have to become part of a precedence system that is meaningful.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Commerce – A Primer on Why Decentralized Reputation Verification Systems Are Needed (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405401
- [3406323-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-037) [condition/argued] -- Increasing counterparty trust in decentralized commerce requires that the full history of transactions be openly viewable and verifiable, so that counterparties' actions endure as part of a public record and a meaningful precedence system.
  > The history of transactions has to be fully openly viewable and verifiable, so that business parties can see that their counterparties will perform as expected.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323

## Verify

Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.

    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/public-record.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.