About the Florida Land Office
FLO records documents for members of the Florida Nationals assembly in a way that can be independently proven later — by anyone, without access to this server and without having to trust it.
What FLO certifies
Exactly one thing, stated precisely: that a specific document existed in a specific form at a specific time, and has not changed since.
That is a narrow claim, and its narrowness is the point. A claim that narrow can be proven with mathematics rather than asserted on authority.
What FLO does not certify
Nothing about whether a recorded document is true, lawful, or binding on anyone. Recording a deed here does not convey land. Recording a claim does not establish it. A recorded document is a document that was recorded — no more.
Florida Land Office is a private membership recording service operated by the Florida Nationals assembly. It is not a county Clerk of Court, a recorder of deeds, or any state or federal agency, and recording a document here does not give it legal effect, establish title, or constitute filing with any government office. What FLO certifies is narrow and precise: that a specific document existed in a specific form at a specific time, and has not changed since.
How it works
Every document gets a fingerprint. Every record commits to the one before it, forming a chain that cannot be edited without breaking. Batches of records are timestamped into the Bitcoin blockchain, which fixes them in time in a way nobody — including the Florida Land Office — can forge or backdate.
The full explanation, written for non-technical readers, is in the project README. The source code is open, and an offline verifier ships with it so that the system's integrity does not depend on trusting the people who run it.
Privacy
Documents recorded in the Privatecategory never appear in the public index, are never counted by an attestation lookup, and are visible only to their owner and the Recorder. Members may also publish a record’s metadata while withholding the document itself.
Because recording numbers run in sequence and can simply be guessed, verifying a private record by number alone will not reveal its title or whose it is. Anyone who actually holds the document can supply it and see those details, having learned nothing new by doing so.