Nick Szabo  🔑

Can't write long-form right now, but crypto law should not be used to rule out political outcomes, it should be about due process. There is nothing conservative about Szabo's law, from the point of view of legal tradition. It's radical, and dismisses conservative legal thought.

The question isn't what governance outcomes I or people want, but what protocols do we want to use for managing our disputes

I honestly feel the conversation is not very useful without digging into specifics. Because the specific outcomes we want to achieve and their level of frequency and invasiveness dictates the institutions required to reliably generate them.

I want us to established a crypto legal system that actually is capable of representing cryptocurrency, now and over time, is based on sound legal thinking. That cannot be the minimization of law.

That still feels like broad platitudes. I want to see a specific example of an outcome that involves not minimizing law that could be practically achieved via crypto law.

You have plenty of them yourself, did you not?

What's yours?

I won't let you answer principles of crypto law questions with politics or governance outcomes questions. We want different things and we don't have an exhaustive list of the disputes that might get into in the future. We need to focus on the process and operation of crypto law!