Crypto Law Review

As you know I am a lawyer (15 years) but also a software developer (35 years). A few thoughts from the frontline of AI wars: - this is real, astronomical, and unstoppable - it's not just "statistical prediction of text" - everything will change - no one will write first drafts of computer code anymore - (no one will write first drafts anymore?) - the quaintness of "hand-made" will spread to many professions - the ubiquity of assembly line will also spread to many professions - AI reviewers are replacing software developers - AI is replacing AI reviewers - the justice system is currently incompatible with this revolution - but the economic pull of cheap, mass-produced solutions is irresistible - the justice system needs to have a say in AI development to continue to be relevant - it can do so by doing two things - (1) accept AI as a legitimate tool like word processing, email or video conferencing before - (2) insist on humans in the loop (this is a term of art—look it up)

Someone is putting the law of every country into one git history. Git for Global Law turns each country's laws into a repository where every commit is a real law taking effect. So you can see exactly what the law said on any date, and which law changed every word. It started with the US Code, which hit #1 on Hacker News. The global version is growing country by country: Germany's constitution since 1949, Estonia and more so far. Free to use for anything, and perfect for feeding to an AI. github.com/lexifina/global-l…

Most people still don’t see that anarcho-capitalism risks culminating in an AGI dictatorship whose political economy is, ironically, closest to communism: production and distribution cease to be coordinated through markets and instead become separate problems centrally planned. One way out is to not abandon property rights, but properly scope them (i.e. stop treating datasets as private goods or public goods, but as plural goods held in partial common ownership by participants to different degrees of their contribution.)

As #digital assets become part of financial infrastructure, how should regulation keep pace? A new report from the @wef and @BCG offers a playbook to help policy-makers assess risks and set priorities. Learn more: weforum.org/publications/reg…

so I'm going to tell you a secret our team actually cares an absurd amount about building private money without backdoors if that means we have to keep out the terrorists, so we can have privacy for the good guys, so be it we're cypherpunks, not anarchists 🫡

Good morning everyone, release time 🔥 The Ark Emulator is effective immediately available for anyone to download & run: - Pair it with the Ark Companion mobile app - Manage data and run apps through the Ark Hub - Build new apps against your own genome blog.dark.bio/2026/10/12/dar…

there is an argument (which I've made privately until now) that one of the principal innovations of the large language model labs is a *legal* innovation, not a technical one by building a system that hoovers up mind-bogglingly large volumes of human information and feeds it into a recombinatorial association machine, the companies have bulldozed the existing IP regime and made the contents of ~all human IP (including the most mundane) searchable, reconfigurable, and usable while also obscuring any trace of origin and eliminating a need to provide credit or attribution. much of the perceived benefit is therefore access and exposure to IP people would not otherwise have had access to, presented behind a system that abstracts the IP from its context and history and presents it as net-new information. I imagine we would have seen ~similar productivity outcomes had Google actually been allowed to make productive use of the Google Books database over a decade ago.