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"The criminal case against Roman Storm is about more than just one man: it's about how the U.S. Constitution is applied to new technology and financial flows."

Excellent article by David Z. Morris 

https://www.therage.co/why-your-rights-are-at-stake-in-the-tornado-cash-trial/

h/t @valkenburgh for sharing this: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/11/opinion/code-is-speech-tornado-cash/

also h/t @neerajka for the "I'm sry your system depended on a third party in control" (paraphrasing).

the core legal concept that will continue to play out is the impudence of developers to "speak" *beyond self-interest*. 

society has not arbitrated a disobedient public good. consider how this in the scope of autonomous code.

OG Cryptolawyer, Director of Research at Coin Center, Board Member at Zcash Foundation, Advisor at Starkware, JD from NYU Law.  "valkenburgh" most places.

new Hats module just dropped: https://docs.hatsprotocol.xyz/hats-integrations/eligibility-and-accountability-criteria/agreement-eligibility

(this is a hypothetical, crazy, ungrounded idea)
- Alice creates s-corp BORG
- once successful enough, does a direct listing
- Bob purchases physical certificates, installs them at a physical location streaming video (that can be attested to), then creates a wallet for that physical location (for deploying location-bound contracts)
- what are the limitations to Alice's BORG in that location? can goods/services be subsidized through the location wallet? what does this equity interface do?

how would installing a physical stock certificate in a mobile domicile w/ a livestream be otherwise limited?

assuming the domicile can interact w/ its environment & this can trigger transactions, what other emergent properties are different?

I wonder if we've stepped into a new age. following the Information Age.

something like a "Neocorporate Age", where the definitions of LLC-like entities, as well as traditional personhood, inherit legitimacy from an irrepudiable source of truth. contrary to this, our culture has to inherit the "post-truth reality" of the previous age, alongside the attack surface of the dark forest.

in a sense, codeslaw is a reference to the unrealized IRL benefit/liability for coordinated behavior.

awesome to see Curia in action:

in a sense, codeslaw is a reference to the unrealized IRL benefit/liability for coordinated behavior.

awesome to see Curia in action: https://x.com/nerderlyne/status/1777683112723652766
https://hackmd.io/@nerderlyne/SyQ9SikgC

Introducing: Entity Formation Frames 🖼️

Spin up an onchain LLC, starting at just $49 - select your jurisdiction, and incorporate!

@hanissimo.eth and I have been wanting to bring this to the farcaster community as “spontaneous” entities

Tx's ⚡ by: @base 🔵

https://frame.otoco.io/api

Create a legal entity in a frame ⚖️🫰

So anyway, apropo of nothing, this is a great day to remind everyone that code, is in fact, law. The chain must go on. *Cue Celine Dion*

So anyway, apropo of nothing, this is a great day to remind everyone that code, is in fact, law. The chain must go on. *Cue Celine Dion*
https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1772740489034285165

Not sure about their specific structure, but here are most of the options used by DAOs if and when there is a legal entity at all.

I'm looking for an ethdenver talk on a significantly more secure voting platform. it's unfortunate that electoral maintenance moves at the speed of government.

Complexity explorer. Residing in the liminal.

found it @eddieosh : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8cGVTamoA0

Don’t launch a token by yourself. It’s not the vibe - centralized, risky, and a lot of pressure.

Launch a token with a group on Party.app instead:
- gather hundreds or thousands of members
- launch and LP through trustless smart contracts
- distribute tokens in one click
- all in a consumer app with a group chat

is this a general partnership with nonseverability? 🤔

I wonder what the legality is around "crawler" DUNAs. what would be the most kosher way to verifiably procure proprietary data so it can be privately stored on a decentralized network?

I believe that law is an archaic form of mathematics. And as mathematics evolves, more laws will be regulated through code, not humanistic presumptions.

David Kerr (@cowriellc) and I will be doing an AMA tomorrow (Friday at 12:00 PM PT) to talk about Wyoming's new legal entity for DAOs.

Come learn how to harness the power of the DUNA.