# kaal:claim:3441904-032

**Claim.** Traditional jurisdictional principles cannot directly apply to blockchain technology because the blockchain is merely a collection of agreed upon calculations by decentralized computer systems, and no particular node holds the entire blockchain.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- public decentralized blockchains maintained by anonymous global users

**Source quote.**

> Traditional jurisdictional principles cannot directly apply to blockchain technology because the blockchain is a mere collection of agreed-upon calculations by decentralized computer systems.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance* (2019), IV.1 Shortcomings of Centralized Governance in Decentralized Systems, page 27

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3441904

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**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, blockchain, compliance, decentralization

**Keywords.** jurisdiction, blockchain, legal-enforcement, decentralization

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3002908-006
- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-011

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