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   "text": "The benefits of coding existing law into smart contracts are only temporary, because as smart contracting evolves over time fewer smart contracting solutions will have a real world equivalent.",
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   "text": "Dual integration, as the authors define it, is the use of legacy legal infrastructure in smart contracting dispute resolution, such as Ricardian contracts, in combination with intra-blockchain systems for resolving smart contract disputes.",
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   "text": "For crypto economy participants who wish to minimize the transaction costs of dual integration and retain anonymity, the authors' proposed open source platform ecosystem is more likely than all other available solutions to provide legal equivalence of dispute resolution mechanisms.",
   "abstract": "For participants in the crypto economy who wish to minimize the transaction costs of dual integration and retain anonymity, our proposed open source platform ecosystem is more likely than all other available solutions to provide legal equivalence of dispute resolution mechanisms.",
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