Key Highlights
- 4, 2025 at 4:08 pm UTC Share Cover art/illustration via CryptoSlate.
- Image includes combined content which may include AI-generated content.
- The year is 2075.
- The judge does not ask for a deed.
- She asks for a transaction ID. The landlord’s lawyer queues up a Bitcoin transaction from fifteen years earlier that moved a token representing the property. The tenant’s lawyer concedes the transaction exists, yet claims the signature was obtained under duress. Everyone in the courtroom accepts what the chain records, but no one agrees on what the record means. That scene captures a question that is moving from thought experiment to institutional design problem: at what point does a monetary network stop being treated mainly as money and start functioning as a default record of who owned what, and when?For now, courts still lean on familiar tools. Chain of title for land runs through registries, index books, PDF databases, and sworn testimonies.
