Gavin Andresen - 2011-12-15 16:16:44

The only way to convince MerkleWeb to calculate anything different is with "choice bits" (as I wrote above), which are kind of like network ports mapped into certain global 320-bit addresses. Each choice bit can only be written by a certain private-key. Each group of choice bits has a public-key that everyone can see to verify the digitally-signed bits from the private-key.

Ok.  So who controls the private keys?