# kaal:claim:2992962-020

**Claim.** Even if courts were given authority to order changes to smart contract code, a programmer coerced by a court could not override the will of the majority of anonymous international blockchain users to make an effective change.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- decentralized blockchains maintained by an anonymous global user majority

**Source quote.**

> Even if courts were given such authority, no programmer so coerced by the court would be able to override the will of the majority of anonymous international blockchain users to make an effective change.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, *Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution* (2017), c) Limited Regulatory Oversight, page 41

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `80b92e67594394e38af41b769327936833de8e25d6cf3def966a6ba13bc83d17` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20and%20Calcaterra%20-%202017%20-%20Crypto%20Transaction%20Dispute%20Resolution.pdf

**Failure mode.** coerced-programmer-cannot-override-majority  (family: enforcement-gap)

**Topics.** consensus-and-security, compliance

**Keywords.** judicial-power, consensus, code-modification, enforcement

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