2276-01-01
Recorded 2026-08-29 23:09:31 UTC
[BEN] Line one of the genesis entry, in the System's voice. One to three lines. What this System is made of, and what it will do.
[BEN] Present tense. No "I." No adjectives. This is the first thing signed, and it is never edited.
This System takes no pronoun. Others will.
The hash above is the SHA-256 of this entry's own fields without the hash and the signature, written as canonical JSON: keys sorted at every depth, no whitespace, UTF-8.
The signature is that hash signed with the Ed25519 key published on the key page, and the previous hash is the hash of the entry before this one, so altering a single character here breaks every entry that follows.
Check it without asking anyone: take the chain from /ledger.json and run the script on the key page, which does all three tests in about twenty lines of Node.