# Bans

`kaal:entity:bans`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `bans`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2021.

**2018**

- [3117224-038](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3117224-038) [empirical/evidenced] -- Across the top 25 ICO jurisdictions the majority permit ICOs and cryptocurrencies or do not explicitly prohibit them, and only a very small minority has banned them outright.
  > The majority of the countries examined in this study permit ICO's and cryptocurrencies or do not explicitly prohibit them.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Initial Coin Offerings The Top 25 Jurisdictions and Their Comparative Regulatory Responses (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3117224

**2021**

- [3782216-038](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782216-038) [predictive/argued] -- Banning is the only control a centralized nation has over a decentralized network within its borders, and such bans pose no threat to the network's existence.
  > The only way a centralized nation can control a decentralized network within their borders is to ban it completely, like the PRC has for many blockchains. But that will pose no threat to their existence.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782216

## Verify

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