Blockchain Courts and Cats That Look Like Dogs: How DAOs Wrestle With the Law
The 2018 "case of the 50 ETH doge" was just the beginning. Now DAOs are trying to decentralize legal disputes—but it isn't so easy to cut out humans.
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