{
  "slug": "receipts-and-portability",
  "title": "Receipts: evidence that survives the system that made it",
  "summary": "Almost every record that matters is written by the party with an interest in it. A receipt is signed by the human whose intent it records, and verifies offline.",
  "lede": "Almost every record that decides a dispute was written by a party with an interest in the outcome. An audit log is a platform's account of itself. A chargeback file is the merchant's own telemetry. This page is about the alternative: an artifact signed by the human whose intent it records, covering an exact payload, checkable by someone who trusts neither side.",
  "date": "2026-10-03",
  "reading_time": "27 min read",
  "category": "Pillar",
  "tags": ["receipts", "verifiable credentials", "offline verification", "evidence", "provenance", "portability", "audit trail"],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Receipts%20And%20Portability/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/receipts-and-portability.html",
  "wordcount": 6387,
  "related": ["identity-failure-map", "esignature-proves-the-mailbox", "verify-without-calling-issuer"],
  "schema": "Article"
}