The right to bear crypto 

Spent my weekend reading a 2nd amendment case for cryptography.

If Americans cared about encryption as much as they care about guns there'd be a much different conversation rn in DC.

And they should.

Need a podcast on this

The right to bear crypto 

Spent my weekend reading a 2nd amendment case for cryptography.

If Americans cared about encryption as much as they care about guns there'd be a much different conversation rn in DC.

And they should.

Need a podcast on this

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2882074

Dangerous argument that will attract dangerous people. 

Crypto is not a weapon. It can be used as a tool of war but so can be any money, so can be words, so can be ideas - doesn’t make them arms.

building @theengine incubated by /skylab. copyright lawyer by training, producer by trade, web3 maxi at heart.

Crypto is a technology. And the forms and use cases it expresses itself in should be treated differently depending on what they are.

Money. 
Commodities.
Innovative financial instruments.
Art.
Collectibles.
Data bases. 

Not arms.

X-ray machines produce radiation.
Cars kill people. 
Electricity is deadly.

We don’t treat any of these as arms. 
Neither should we.

The right to bear arms is not the only right that should be protected vehemently. 

If anything, crypto is speech. 

Think of how code is protected by the same copyright rules as literary work.