Immutable Referential Anchoring Using Bitcoin’s Merkle Stru…

Immutable Referential Anchoring Using Bitcoin’s Merkle Structure:A System for Cross-Database Field Integrity and GIGO Prevention
Dr Craig S. Wright University of Exeter Business School Exeter, United Kingdom
Abstract—Distributed data systems silently propagate fieldlevel errors, inconsistencies, and unverifiable state across databases, creating systemic reliability failures. This paper presents a cryptographic anchoring framework using Bitcoin’s immutable ledger and deterministic Merkle structure to map and verify individual field updates across disparate systems. Each field is reduced to a hash, inserted into a Merkle tree, and timestamped on-chain. Anchors are stored in relational, document, or graph databases with verification metadata. This mechanism eliminates garbage-in-garbage-out at the ingestion layer, providing crosssystem provenance, finality, and automaton-bound state transitions enforceable via Bitcoin Script.
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