"Code is law."
"Sometimes laws should be broken."
Discuss.
@VladZamfir @VitalikButerin @TokenHash @_Kevin_Pham @CleanApp @NickSzabo4 @derose @el33th4xor
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#CodeisLaw, insofar as it can maintain itself, but when under true crisis (such as the reforms that Gracchus was implementing in SPQR), or a hacker draining the DAO, the necessity of the decision for public safety of the community becomes the praxis of the law.
Bitcoin has never done a fork to reverse unintended consequences of a smart contract, however large, and has a ruthless dogma against doing so. Thus its much smaller argument surface and much greater market value.
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That's because Bitcoin's pursuit of "astronomical improvement in FINANCE" has focused on digital assets and digital asset control, which is far easier to code/implement than even the easiest
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Common sense as well as wisdom to tackle and even master the easy things before tackling the much harder and more advanced things. Especially when the easier things, money and many kinds of purely financial contracts, alone have $trillions in potential value.
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That said, I'd love to see proplets happen in my lifetime: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/proplets.html …
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If you upload your consciousness to the blockchain and thus make it immutable you won’t have to worry about this silly “lifetime” construct
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Sounds like it would be more secure than my current instantiation, but slow like taking too many sleeping pills.
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If you start thinking too much fees will go up, so be careful
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