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Strict letter of the law regimes, which the authors call protocol centralization, produce rigid and temporarily efficient hierarchies, but that same rigidity generates instability and eventual collapse.

When the laws were strict—Rule by Law—then the hierarchy formed rigidly and was very efficient temporarily, before its rigidity led to its instability and eventual collapse. This is pro- tocol centralization.

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021), Chapter 6. Technical perspective, p. 2
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203

• historical rule by law systems
• rigidly enforced protocols

mechanismsupport: arguedfailure: rigidity-induced-collapsefamily: rule-obsolescence-and-ossificationdecentralizationinstitutional-design

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