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0 pointsknorker3y ago0 comments

Indeed it cannot be actualized, as it connects to the real world.

This is why things like "land registry on the blockchain" will never happen. When a court decides that a sale of a house was unlawful, then the blockchain is wrong and irrelevant.

Code isn't law. Law is system that ultimately sends people to your house and puts you in a locked house that you're not allowed to leave, and lets other people live in "your" house now.

Math can't enforce who lives in your house.

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antisthenes3y ago

Exactly.

Law isn't law unless it's been enforced through courts, precedent and ultimately someone with authority to use force to force compliance.

twox23y ago

In other words, "code is law" only if it complies within the existing framework of our laws. IMO, this still leaves a lot of room for creative applications of smart contracts.

knorkerOP3y ago

Could be. But then any smart contract system needs to acknowledge this overarching law, and give it "super user access", if you will.

And these systems could exist. But they are not the systems that are being designed. They are in fact antithetical to the stated goals of all of these cryptocurrencies and smart contract systems.

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