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title: "Discussion on \"Deactivating a license and moving it to a new machine: receipts, offline proofs, and transfer limits\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"Deactivating a license and moving it to a new machine: receipts, offline proofs, and transfer limits\". Activation gets all the attention: fingerprints, seats, signed leases. Deactivation — giving a seat back so it can be used somewhere else — is treated as the trivial inverse. It is not, for one reason"
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# [Deactivating a license and moving it to a new machine: receipts, offline proofs, and transfer limits](https://delta1labs.hashnode.dev/deactivating-a-license-and-moving-it-to-a-new-machine-receipts-offline-proofs-and-transfer-limits?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Activation gets all the attention: fingerprints, seats, signed leases. Deactivation — giving a seat back so it can be used somewhere else — is treated as the trivial inverse. It is not, for one reason

1d ago · 13 min read · delta1labs.hashnode.dev  
Updated 25m ago  
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