System and method for modifying content stored in a blockchain

A system for modifying content stored in a blockchain, the system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is capable of executing instructions to perform steps of:
• identifying an old block of the blockchain comprising undesired data in at least one transaction of the old block;
• creating an updated block by allowing a user to correct the at least one transaction of the old block;
• determining a new block hash for the updated block;
• submitting, as a new transaction, corrected form of the at least one transaction, along with the new block hash and the difference between the new block hash and hash of the old block as an offset;
• allowing miners to mine the corrected form of the at least one transaction, along with other new transactions;
• and
• mining, based on a consensus of users of the blockchain, the other new transactions into a new block connected to a tip of the blockchain, and editing the old block to introduce the corrected form of the at least one transaction, and wherein the processor is capable of executing further instructions to perform steps of:
• validating a block subsequent to an edited old block if sum of a hash of the block subsequent to the edited old block is identified to be equal to a sum of the hash of the edited old block and the offset discovered from the new block;
• and
• identifying entire blockchain to be invalid while the block subsequent to the edited old block is identified to be invalid.

A non-transitory computer program product having embodied thereon a computer program for modifying content stored in a blockchain, the computer program product storing instructions for:

• identifying an old block of the blockchain comprising undesired data in at least one transaction of the old block;
• creating an updated block by allowing a user to correct the at least one transaction of the old block;
• determining a new block hash for the updated block;
• submitting, as a new transaction, corrected form of the at least one transaction, along with the new block hash and the difference between the new block hash and hash of the old block as an offset;
• allowing miners to mine the corrected form of the at least one transaction, along with other new transactions;
• mining, based on a consensus of users of the blockchain, the other new transactions into a new block connected to a tip of the blockchain, and editing the old block to introduce the corrected form of the at least one transaction;
• validating a block subsequent to an edited old block if sum of a hash of the block subsequent to the edited old block is identified to be equal to a sum of the hash of the edited old block and the offset discovered from the new block;
• and
• identifying entire blockchain to be invalid while the block subsequent to the edited old block is identified to be invalid.