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Nick Szabo· 2026-02-21 16:02
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)There are libraries full of laws governing a very wide variety legible content online, and extremely few, if any, lawyers in the crypto space who have strong experience in them and are also strongly familiar with the unique nature of most blockchains (e.g. the often extreme functional disruption that comes from deleting data once it is on a blockchain). Here is just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg -- a small fraction of relevant U.S. federal law -- not even considering the 5 ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-02-21 04:01
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)There are libraries full of laws governing a very wide variety legible content online, and extremely few, if any, lawyers in the crypto space who have strong experience in them and are also strongly familiar with the unique nature of most blockchains (e.g. the often extreme functional disruption that comes from deleting data once it is on a blockchain). Here is just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg -- a small fraction of relevant U.S. federal law -- not even considering the 5 ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-02-21 03:10
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)There are libraries full of laws governing a very wide variety legible content online, and extremely few, if any, lawyers in the crypto space who have strong experience in them and are also strongly familiar with the unique nature of most blockchains (e.g. the often extreme functional disruption that comes from deleting data once it is on a blockchain). Here is just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg -- a small fraction of relevant U.S. federal law -- not even considering the 5 ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-02-14 22:22
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)There are libraries full of laws governing a very wide variety legible content online, and extremely few, if any, lawyers in the crypto space who have strong experience in them and are also strongly familiar with the unique nature of most blockchains (e.g. the often extreme functional disruption that comes from deleting data once it is on a blockchain). Here is just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg -- a small fraction of relevant U.S. federal law -- not even considering the 5 ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-22 15:14
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)There are libraries full of laws governing a very wide variety legible content online, and extremely few, if any, lawyers in the crypto space who have strong experience in them and are also strongly familiar with the unique nature of most blockchains (e.g. the often extreme functional disruption that comes from deleting data once it is on a blockchain). Here is just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg -- a small fraction of relevant U.S. federal law -- not even considering the 5 ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-22 08:11
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)There are libraries full of laws governing a very wide variety legible content online, and extremely few, if any, lawyers in the crypto space who have strong experience in them and are also strongly familiar with the unique nature of most blockchains (e.g. the often extreme functional disruption that comes from deleting data once it is on a blockchain). Here is just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg -- a small fraction of relevant U.S. federal law -- not even considering the 5 ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-18 01:59
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)There are libraries full of laws governing a very wide variety legible content online, and extremely few, if any, lawyers in the crypto space who have strong experience in them and are also strongly familiar with the unique nature of most blockchains (e.g. the often extreme functional disruption that comes from deleting data once it is on a blockchain). Here is just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg -- a small fraction of relevant U.S. federal law -- not even considering the 5 ...
Finding Opportunity in Outdated Rules
Y Combinator· 2025-12-05 17:12
A lot of great startup ideas are sort of in this gray area of like the law is not totally clear. It's a little bit murky whether it's legal or illegal. Even Open AI is like that, right.I mean, they they crawled the entire web without permission. You could argue that that's fair use or you could argue it's like massive copyright theft. I remember talking to the Lyft founders the week before they launched Lyft and they were extremely worried that they would go to jail and they decided to like roll the dice an ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-01 05:06
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)There are libraries full of laws governing a very wide variety legible content online, and extremely few, if any, lawyers in the crypto space who have strong experience in them and are also strongly familiar with the unique nature of most blockchains (e.g. the often extreme functional disruption that comes from deleting data once it is on a blockchain). Here is just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg -- a small fraction of relevant U.S. federal law -- not even considering the 5 ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-30 05:56
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)There are libraries full of laws governing a very wide variety legible content online, and extremely few, if any, lawyers in the crypto space who have strong experience in them and are also strongly familiar with the unique nature of most blockchains (e.g. the often extreme functional disruption that comes from deleting data once it is on a blockchain). Here is just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg -- a small fraction of relevant U.S. federal law -- not even considering the 5 ...