The strongest claim on this estate is not "our records are accurate" — it is "if anyone edits our records, you will catch us." Here is exactly how an edit surfaces, and why it cannot be quietly repaired.
To alter history invisibly they would need to re-sign the edited receipt and every receipt after it — which requires the private signing key — and then replace every copy held outside their control. Each additional holder of the chain multiplies the cost of the lie.
A precise, public accusation: verification fails at receipt 42, field-level, reproducible by anyone with the ledger and the public key. Run this yourself in the tamper simulation or the live tool-call demo — the hashes there are computed in your browser.
Removing a receipt from the middle breaks the next receipt's prev-link exactly the way an edit does. Truncating the end is caught by the chain head — sequence and head hash are published continuously by the public chain audit.
A failed verification is treated as evidence — of tampering, corruption, or compromise — and is never silently "fixed." The honest outcomes are two: the chain verifies, or you know precisely where it stopped being trustworthy.