Re:Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
by DennisP on Monday November 01, 2021 @04:31PM
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The 9th Circuit ruled that source code is protected under the First Amendment in the Bernstein case, which legalized the export of cryptography. If you just publish the contract and don't have any ongoing administration, I would think that gives you a pretty strong legal defense.
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Re:Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
by vineyardmike on Monday November 01, 2021 @10:59PM
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Publish the code, or activate/enable/fund/start/whatever to instantiate the activity.
If you just publish it github - thats probably a good defense (linux T isn't to blame for all bad things that ran on linux).
If you publish a smart contract in a way that enables people to start using it, then that may not be covered. While its different than actively running an API/Service that needs continuous/paid hosting, its probably a grey area at best.
If the government were to take a hard line on this, then publishing on github for anyone to deploy would work. It's easy to verify that the compiled contract matches published source code.
But the Bernstein case was about PGP, and after the decision people had no trouble with using it, making compiled code available for download, etc.