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Dealing with blame in digital ecosystems: The DAO failure in the Ethereum blockchain presents the following source proposition: The Decentralized Autonomous Organization ( The DAO ) was an alternative model of organizational governance based on the Ethereum blockchain which registered one of the biggest successes in crowdfunding history and fell victim to one of the biggest hacks of the crypto world. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that A decentralized autonomous organization is merely computer code with no directors, managers or employees, its governance structure built with software, code and smart contracts running on a public decentralized blockchain platform. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
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