{
 "@context": "https://schema.org",
 "@type": "Claim",
 "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2992962-031",
 "identifier": "kaal:claim:2992962-031",
 "text": "As blockchain use grows, node operation will eventually require special equipment affordable only by large corporations in the existing legal infrastructure, creating the possibility of dangerous centralization and a threat to anonymity.",
 "author": {
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "Wulf A. Kaal",
  "identifier": "https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7840-1847"
 },
 "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962",
 "isBasedOn": {
  "@type": "ScholarlyArticle",
  "name": "Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution",
  "datePublished": "2017",
  "url": "https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962",
  "sha256": "80b92e67594394e38af41b769327936833de8e25d6cf3def966a6ba13bc83d17",
  "encoding": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20and%20Calcaterra%20-%202017%20-%20Crypto%20Transaction%20Dispute%20Resolution.pdf"
 },
 "keywords": [
  "decentralization",
  "economics"
 ],
 "about": [
  "centralization",
  "anonymity",
  "storage-growth",
  "node-economics"
 ],
 "abstract": "which will eventually require special equipment that can only be afforded by large corporations in the existing legal infrastructure. With such power for large corporations comes the possibility of dangerous centralization and a threat to undermining anonymity.",
 "additionalProperty": [
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "claim_type",
   "value": "predictive"
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "confidence",
   "value": "argued"
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "scope_conditions",
   "value": [
    "blockchains with eternal storage and rapidly growing size"
   ]
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "is_failure_mode",
   "value": true
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "attestations",
   "value": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/colloquium/attestations/36bfc1b09ee3d1c3a70fd2fda94924671f8584c4c5cb40f4e5f510bb24eef889.json"
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "edges",
   "value": []
  }
 ],
 "isPartOf": {
  "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/index.json"
 },
 "dateModified": "2026-07-27",
 "version": "1.0",
 "sha256": "36bfc1b09ee3d1c3a70fd2fda94924671f8584c4c5cb40f4e5f510bb24eef889",
 "canonicalForm": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2992962-031.md"
}