AND IT’S OFFICIAL!! 🤠#Wyoming will recognize #DAOs as a new type of LLC, effective July 1! Thank you legislators & @GovernorGordon for building on Wyoming’s history of inventing the LLC, which all other states followed roughly a decade later. We’re doing it again! A thread👇. 1/
What problem does #Wyoming’s #DAO law solve? It’s the prob of joint-&-several liability for all participants in a DAO, if the DAO were ever deemed by a court to be a general partnership 😱New law handles this by applying LLC liab protections to DAOs that meet the requirements. 2/
KEY is that, unlike regular LLCs, #Wyoming Secretary of State can yank the liability protection from a DAO that commits fraud or engages illegal activities (unlike with a regular LLC). So, only use this law for valid projects & get counsel—it won’t be useful for invalid ones. 3/
Another cool aspect is that #Wyoming was also a leader in giving #Bitcoin, #ETH, #ADA & other #cryptos clear legal protection as property under commercial law—& we took LOTS of heat for doing that 2 years ago. Now rest of US is moving there—that didn’t take a decade to spread. 4/
I wonder how long it will take before the #DAO law spreads to rest of US too!

If you think this is cool—&/or the 23 other #blockchain-enabling laws #Wyoming has enacted to date—you can thank Wyoming by domiciling your company here, moving here, &/or sponsoring @wyohackathon! 5/
#WyoHackathon is non-profit event hosted by Univ of Wyoming. It’s in person in Laramie Sep 22-26. The first @wyohackathon in 2018 was @ethereumJoseph’s idea-@Consensys team helped get it off the ground. Joe, the #DAO law is good reason for you to come back again this year! 😉 6/
I can’t wait to see what type of innovation is unleashed by this new law! It will be useful for open-source software projects of all kinds, & it solidifies #Wyoming’s spot as the #2 domicile for biz entity registrations behind Delaware. Let’s make this a smashing success!! 🤠

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26 Mar
1/ SOME THOUGHTS on the Texas #blockchain bills. Lots of good stuff here!! But Texans have more work to do. I hope sharing these thoughts helps you!

First, IT'S AWESOME that Texas is likely to become 2nd state to treat #bitcoin the same as money under US commercial law. 🚀💥🤠
2/ This is AWESOME & is LONG overdue. For lawyers out there Texas is proposing to apply the UCC "take free" rules, which means innocent purchasers of #bitcoin & other virtual currencies take free of any adverse claims as long as they didn't defraud the seller. THIS IS A BIG DEAL!
3/ It's same as the in-process proposal of @uniformlaws. Texas is jumping out ahead to adopt it early. I've been an observer of Uniform Law Commission process & it has made great strides to get to where it is--namely that #control of a virtual currency is the determining factor.
Read 16 tweets
2 Mar
1/ QUESTION for #DeFi experts--has anyone seen analysis of DeFi projects under Misesian distinction of **commodity credit** vs **circulation credit**?

Here's where I'm going: if all debt in the DeFi system is commodity credit, then system is solvent & yield is coming from vol.
2/ But if some debt in the system represents circulation credit, then system is fundamentally not solvent at the systemic level--so that at least some of the yield is coming from counterparty risk, & then the question becomes "how do you quantify the credit risk in the system?"
3/ In other words, yield can be broken into 2 components: risk-free nominal yield + a credit spread. If all debt in the #DeFi project is commodity credit, then system is solvent (ie, all debt backed by someone else's equity)--so in theory no credit spread (excl. operational risk)
Read 5 tweets
21 Feb
THIS PASSAGE in interview of James Grant by Kevin Duffy struck me given heartbreak in Texas. Interview predated Texas storms.

Commodity mkts have been booming generally, driven by tight supply

When demand spike hits tight supply, prices ⬆️. It’s not just happening in #bitcoin
BTW, the price of a gallon of gasoline is up about 20% since Jan 1 near me. Ouch. #inflation
“What matters to me...is speaking up...for the great institution of corporate solvency (you’d be surprised how controversial it can become at the end of a boom).-James Grant @mises

I agree—corporate solvency can go out window in bull mkts. Happens to #bitcoin intermediaries too
Read 4 tweets
9 Feb
1/ HAPPY #TESLA DAY, #bitcoin! Two things in the announcement caught my eye🧐& are worth pondering.🤔

* the $1.5bn #bitcoin purchase was 7.7% of @Tesla's $19.4bn of cash. Why only 7.7%?

* Tesla plans to accept bitcoin as payment but "may or may not liquidate upon receipt." Why?
2/ Why only 7.7% of cash? Well, @Tesla confirmed it's using indefinite intangible accounting, which is UGLY treatment (lower of cost or market+risk of impairment charges). We bitcoiners must work to get bitcoin acctg fixed. It's prob why Square only put 2% of its cash into #BTC.
3/ What gives? "Impairment charge"=☠️. Cos hate them bc they cause sudden hits to earnings. I'd guess Tesla & Square ran scenario analyses to see how big an impairment charge they cld tolerate in a #bitcoin bear mkt, & sized their investment based partly on that (+other factors).
Read 14 tweets
16 Jan
1/ FASCINATING few weeks for social media—the migrations away from big platforms by fed-up users has been MASSIVE. Users proved we’re MUCH more powerful in ecosystems than many ppl thought (vaguely reminiscent of #UASF event in #bitcoin).

The b4 vs after venn diagram of the...
2/ ...social platforms & news sources I use has surprisingly little overlap. I’m trying many new platforms (today I happened upon a great Clubhouse chat room on #crypto law w/ @propelforward. Clubhouse is gonna disrupt podcasts in a v big way, IMHO). Follow me if you’re there! 🤠
3/ I don’t plan to leave @Twitter but I’m not wedded to it either. None of us should be! When 40m people sign up for one new platform & 25m for another in just days, you know something big is afoot.

Related, one of my mentors said something v wise:

#bitcoin will hack big tech.
Read 4 tweets
14 Jan
1/ HEY PEEPS—lots of folks asking abt @Anchorage OCC trust charter—again, congrats to Anchorage!💪👏 But OCC trust charter is narrower than #Wyoming SPDI charter. OCC trust cos can’t take deposits or directly access the Fed’s pymt system. Here’s the thread I promised. 👇
2/ Key=there’s a pecking order among types of bank charters. At the top of food chain are the mega-banks that can fund US govt. Next=banks ("depository institutions") that have direct access to the Fed’s payment system. Below them are banks & trust cos that don't have such access
3/ OCC trust cos are in the 3rd category but #Wyoming SPDIs rank above them, in the 2nd. To be eligible for direct pymt system access at Fed, the bank must be a "depository institution" (as defined in 12USC461). Wyoming SPDIs are depository institutions, but OCC trust cos aren’t.
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