grin

july

devs deal with complexity by building layers of abstraction: simple and hard at the bottom, with layered complexity/subjectivity on top as needed. our social structures should do the same.

there's a seminal legal paper on why property law keeps vacillating between clear, objective, predictable rules (crystals) and flexible, subjective, discretionary interpretations (mud): http://i.grin.io/crystals-and-mud.pdf

whats special now is that you can have both: crystalline protocols for the objective, with rich subjectivity built on top. like a credit card on crypto rails -- you can use the card if you want chargeback protection or use the blockchain directly if you want an irreversible tx. most humans want the credit card, but direct protocol access is vital for e.g. disruptive startups, novel legal structures, Canadian truckers.

this was not possible before. US law can only have one setting on the hard<->subjective spectrum.

the broader shift coming out of crypto and open source is that our social structures will be rebuilt on top of hard, open protocols.

the effects of this are deeply underrated

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not many builders yet but we'll get there. its incredibly early still

I agree with you. I think this is one of the largest impacts we can have. It can even be sold as an efficiency tool to governments. But, it doesn’t look like we’ve made legit progress here. 

Though I imagine we don’t have many builders at the intersection of crypto and gov relations / sales. 

Wonder if it makes more sense to go after new network states or open to innovation countries (Dubai, Argentina).