Back to collectionFiling the New Rule Without Assuming Future Burns
The buyback report had announced a new rule, and the first tokens had reached the burn address. The narrator filed the buyback report and checked that the burn address had not moved again. The record could now describe both the rule change and the extent of execution visible so far, without attesting to transfers that had yet to occur.
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The buyback report had announced a new rule, and the first tokens had reached the burn address. As the narrator prepared to put this stage in the chronicle, he noticed that someone in the group was treating the report’s terms and completed transfers as the same thing.
The narrator filed the buyback report and checked that the burn address had not moved again. In his draft, he put the rule—buybacks twice the previous period’s size, with 100% burned afterward—in a separate sentence from the transfers already made. The Night Watchman warned that the report did not reveal what later batches would look like.
The record could now describe both the rule change and the extent of execution visible so far, without attesting to transfers that had yet to occur. The narrator left himself a reminder to check the address again. Whether the new terms would continue to be followed remained a question for later records.