{
 "@context": "https://schema.org",
 "@type": "Claim",
 "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-014",
 "identifier": "kaal:claim:3266953-014",
 "text": "Smart contracts cannot by themselves carry human business interactions, because those interactions require flexibility in interpreting intent that is at odds with the merciless mathematical logic of smart contract code.",
 "author": {
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "Wulf A. Kaal",
  "identifier": "https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7840-1847"
 },
 "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953",
 "isBasedOn": {
  "@type": "ScholarlyArticle",
  "name": "Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper",
  "datePublished": "2018",
  "url": "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953",
  "sha256": "781758dea356e55d79c73ad7f1debe7c83de398bd1cd9e0a9a6c2802f276b4c0",
  "encoding": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20et%20al.%20-%202018%20-%20Reputation%20Protocol%20for%20the%20Internet%20of%20Trust%20-%20Conceptual%20Whitepaper.pdf"
 },
 "keywords": [
  "smart-contracts"
 ],
 "about": [
  "smart-contracts",
  "contract-flexibility",
  "code-is-law",
  "business-interaction"
 ],
 "abstract": "Human business interactions require a flexibility that is at odds with the merciless mathematical logic of smart contracts.",
 "additionalProperty": [
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "claim_type",
   "value": "condition"
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "confidence",
   "value": "argued"
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "scope_conditions",
   "value": [
    "business collaborations with unanticipated eventualities or partial performance"
   ]
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "is_failure_mode",
   "value": true
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "attestations",
   "value": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/colloquium/attestations/b87abb0283c648db72c90d9c57348d45952b42d5928a524807f4264b335df112.json"
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "edges",
   "value": [
    {
     "rel": "restated_by",
     "to": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411897-032",
     "to_id": "kaal:claim:3411897-032",
     "similarity": 0.681
    },
    {
     "rel": "restated_by",
     "to": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-009",
     "to_id": "kaal:claim:3405401-009",
     "similarity": 0.593
    },
    {
     "rel": "restated_by",
     "to": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-032",
     "to_id": "kaal:claim:3406323-032",
     "similarity": 0.437
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "isPartOf": {
  "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/index.json"
 },
 "dateModified": "2026-07-27",
 "version": "1.0",
 "sha256": "b87abb0283c648db72c90d9c57348d45952b42d5928a524807f4264b335df112",
 "canonicalForm": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-014.md"
}