The Cryptolaw Bill of Rights

All persons have the following absolute rights in connection with autonomous cryptosystems:

1. The right to create, publish, deploy, use and enjoy autonomous cryptosystems.

2. The right to privacy, anonymity, pseudonymity and multiple identities in the use of autonomous cryptosystems, including through the use of operational security, obfuscation protocols and cryptography. 

3. The right, within autonomous cryptosystems, to exercise control over assets and engage in transactions independently of intermediaries, custodians and discretionary authorities and agents. 

4. The right to use autonomous cryptosystems engage in civil disobedience against unjust laws infringing fundamental human freedoms. 

5. The right to voluntarily relinquish, forfeit or waive one’s own otherwise applicable legal and equitable rights, remedies and protections in connection with the use of autonomous cryptosystems.  

6. The right to release, exculpate or excuse others’ otherwise applicable legal and equitable duties, liabilities and restrictions in connection with the use of autonomous cryptosystems. 

7. The right to reach express or implied consensus with others within or through autonomous cryptosystems. 

8. The right to validate and verify all operations and data of autonomous cryptosystems. 

9. The right of free association and transactions with others in connection with the use of autonomous cryptosystems.  

10. The right to enter into immutable agreements, including agreements limiting or eliminating one’s own future discretion and agreements to be bound by the consensus processes of autonomous cryptosystems, and the right to provide irrevocable or absolute consent to consequences determined through the operation or consensus processes of autonomous cryptosystems. 

11. The right to acquire control or power over any assets or powers to the extent possible within autonomous cryptosystems.

12. The right to refuse or relinquish control or ownership over any assets or powers  to the extent such relinquishment is possible within autonomous cryptosystems.

 “Autonomous cryptosystem” means deployed runtime software that: (a) is accessible on an unpermissioned basis; (b) is directly or indirectly operated by an open peer-to-peer network of software clients; (c) does not depend for its operation or results of operation on the discretion of any single person or group of extrinsically associated, extrinsically coordinated or extrinsically affiliated persons; (d) is not owned or completely controlled by any single person or group of extrinsically associated, coordinated or affiliated persons; (e) is clearly linked to and verifiably compiled from readily available and freely and publicly published open-source-licensed source code; and (e) uses public-key (asymmetric) cryptography as its sole native source of identification and permissioning.