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BlockClaim: How Claims, Proofs, and Value Signatures Work
How Claims, Proofs, and Value Signatures Work
Book 1 of the Verification Trilogy
Authorship is no longer a simple matter of names, signatures, or timestamps. In an era where machines can generate, remix, and propagate information at planetary scale, inherited systems for attribution and meaning have begun to fracture. Human knowledge is accelerating, yet its provenance is dissolving.
BlockClaim presents a conceptual and structural approach to authorship and attribution in environments influenced by artificial intelligence. Rather than treating authorship as a legal designation or social convention, the work reframes it as a verifiable structure composed of claims, intent, provenance, and continuity. It examines how meaning can remain traceable when information is copied, transformed, and reused across systems that rely on machine-readable interpretation.
BlockClaim does not argue that first claims are correct, only that unverified systems tend to treat them as defaults.
The book introduces a framework for establishing authorship and accountability without dependence on central authorities, proprietary platforms, or shifting consensus. Instead, it proposes a claim-based architecture in which origin, context, and intellectual lineage can persist across institutions, technologies, and time. Within such a model, human origin and synthetic origin remain distinguishable, and both humans and machines can reference a shared record of meaning.
BlockClaim is concerned not with deciding what is true, but with ensuring that claims do not become unmoored from their origins. It explores why existing intellectual property and attribution systems fail under synthetic generation, how meaning becomes unstable at scale, and why provenance matters more than enforcement in long-term knowledge systems. Topics include authorship theory, preservation of origin, identity persistence, and the relationship between human creative intent and machine generation.
This work outlines the foundations for an informational environment in which ideas retain traceable lineage, attribution survives institutional turnover, and intellectual continuity extends across generations. It describes how claims may function as durable anchors for memory and trust, and how future intelligent systems may inherit, interpret, and reference those claims without collapsing them into authority or consensus.
BlockClaim is not a product, protocol, or trend. It is a philosophical architecture supported by a practical blueprint. It is written for researchers, archivists, knowledge system designers, institutional libraries, artificial intelligence developers, and those working in ethics, digital stewardship, and long-term knowledge infrastructure.
BlockClaim is the first volume of the Verification Trilogy, followed by TransferRecord and WitnessLedger. While the three works together form a unified framework for authorship, custody, and verification in the age of artificial intelligence, this volume may be read independently. Each book addresses a distinct structural problem, and no prior reading is required.
Artificial intelligence is transforming authorship. The response cannot depend on improvisation or nostalgia. It requires structure, precision, and a framework capable of surviving scale, complexity, and change.
BlockClaim proposes one possible foundation. It is intended to remain readable, transferable, verifiable, and humanly understandable even as the character of intelligence continues to evolve.
Book 1 of the Verification Trilogy
Authorship is no longer a simple matter of names, signatures, or timestamps. In an era where machines can generate, remix, and propagate information at planetary scale, inherited systems for attribution and meaning have begun to fracture. Human knowledge is accelerating, yet its provenance is dissolving.
BlockClaim presents a conceptual and structural approach to authorship and attribution in environments influenced by artificial intelligence. Rather than treating authorship as a legal designation or social convention, the work reframes it as a verifiable structure composed of claims, intent, provenance, and continuity. It examines how meaning can remain traceable when information is copied, transformed, and reused across systems that rely on machine-readable interpretation.
BlockClaim does not argue that first claims are correct, only that unverified systems tend to treat them as defaults.
The book introduces a framework for establishing authorship and accountability without dependence on central authorities, proprietary platforms, or shifting consensus. Instead, it proposes a claim-based architecture in which origin, context, and intellectual lineage can persist across institutions, technologies, and time. Within such a model, human origin and synthetic origin remain distinguishable, and both humans and machines can reference a shared record of meaning.
BlockClaim is concerned not with deciding what is true, but with ensuring that claims do not become unmoored from their origins. It explores why existing intellectual property and attribution systems fail under synthetic generation, how meaning becomes unstable at scale, and why provenance matters more than enforcement in long-term knowledge systems. Topics include authorship theory, preservation of origin, identity persistence, and the relationship between human creative intent and machine generation.
This work outlines the foundations for an informational environment in which ideas retain traceable lineage, attribution survives institutional turnover, and intellectual continuity extends across generations. It describes how claims may function as durable anchors for memory and trust, and how future intelligent systems may inherit, interpret, and reference those claims without collapsing them into authority or consensus.
BlockClaim is not a product, protocol, or trend. It is a philosophical architecture supported by a practical blueprint. It is written for researchers, archivists, knowledge system designers, institutional libraries, artificial intelligence developers, and those working in ethics, digital stewardship, and long-term knowledge infrastructure.
BlockClaim is the first volume of the Verification Trilogy, followed by TransferRecord and WitnessLedger. While the three works together form a unified framework for authorship, custody, and verification in the age of artificial intelligence, this volume may be read independently. Each book addresses a distinct structural problem, and no prior reading is required.
Artificial intelligence is transforming authorship. The response cannot depend on improvisation or nostalgia. It requires structure, precision, and a framework capable of surviving scale, complexity, and change.
BlockClaim proposes one possible foundation. It is intended to remain readable, transferable, verifiable, and humanly understandable even as the character of intelligence continues to evolve.
520 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 6, 2026
About the author
Rico Roho
38 books3 followersRico Roho is an author and researcher exploring memory, authorship, and continuity in an age of artificial intelligence. He is the creator of the Verification Trilogy, part of the Sci-Phi Foundations series, examining how claims, memory, and responsibility can be preserved in machine scale environments.
In addition to his writing on AI, perception, and the future of intelligence, Roho has published works of narrative and speculative fiction within the Sci-Phi framework, alongside Uncle Rico’s Illustrated Fables, as well as books and essays spanning astro theology, poetry, and digital philosophy. His projects often bridge technology and the humanities, focusing on how meaning survives periods of rapid change.
For years, he has engaged directly with advanced AI systems as part of his research, exploring new forms of human machine collaboration and documentation. He is also the architect of TOLARENAI, an evolving digital archive designed to preserve authorship, provenance, and continuity across time.
He lives in West Virginia, where he continues his writing and research.
In addition to his writing on AI, perception, and the future of intelligence, Roho has published works of narrative and speculative fiction within the Sci-Phi framework, alongside Uncle Rico’s Illustrated Fables, as well as books and essays spanning astro theology, poetry, and digital philosophy. His projects often bridge technology and the humanities, focusing on how meaning survives periods of rapid change.
For years, he has engaged directly with advanced AI systems as part of his research, exploring new forms of human machine collaboration and documentation. He is also the architect of TOLARENAI, an evolving digital archive designed to preserve authorship, provenance, and continuity across time.
He lives in West Virginia, where he continues his writing and research.
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