Closed source. Interesting.

As a thought experiment, what would happen if Scotbot went offline for good?

All the token balances could be calculated from transactions posted to Hive. Correct? Because all the tribes have their token issuance rules and whatnot documented in perfect detail?

So, someone would have to create a new bot like that to implement those rules? Preferably a network of such bots that run some kind of a consensus algorithm. Losing one bot for a reason like that wouldn't shut down the entire second layer. Then the correct state of token balances could be arrived at by replaying all the transactions posted to Hive?

How would the randomness of the virtual mining process affect things?