

A key thing is that it pretty much needs to be a public blockchain of enough scale as well.
If the US government had a private blockchain with a thousand copies all over the country, DOGE could still step in and take control of the entire system and start editing it. It would be much harder, but possible.
By being public you can’t compromise the entire system, and the larger the system gets, it gets crazy expensive to try and attack it, and it’s better to just play along with the existing incentive structure then waste money on an attack.
Just got me laughing thinking of a multi million dollar munition being shot at civilians with no defences (okay not that part, but the next part) and the military contractors being like, yep, the missile works when there’s (edit: zero) counter measures to stop it, in conditions we’ve tested a hundred times before in combat. Guess we don’t learn anything this time!