Just watched a Panorama programme on the Bitcoin currency. The way Bitcoin authenticates transactions and accounts is by having numerous “bookkeepers” (actually computers) that store the data, and it confirms things with all of these. So if one of them was corrupted it would stand out as all the rest would show different information.
It struck me that this is remarkably similar to how we know the New Testament is reliable! There were many streams of transmission, so if someone had tried to fiddle with the text, or if a simple error occurred, it would stand out because of the other streams of transmission. This is part of the way that Bible translation works. Numerous texts are looked at, and so we can be confident that the text that our Bibles are based on is 99% correct.
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