kaal:position:2026-07-31-7805

Understanding accountability in blockchain systems presents the following source proposition: Design/methodology/approach This study draws on theorising in the accountability literature to study how blockchains relate to our construction and understanding of accountability. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Existing blockchains and DAOs still lack genuine decentralization, and there are currently no true DAOs: Bitcoin's proof of work protocol has produced mining pools because of economies of scale and unbalanced reward structures. 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.

• The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
• External evidence level: abstract indexed.
• Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
• Primary mapping confidence: 0.3779.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Understanding accountability in blockchain systems

kaal:claim:3227967-032
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967
Source PDF sha256: f6e13b956f864ab32ec3305d095a35a127770327d75b3688f785cefc437d369f

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3779
Mapping ambiguous: true

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Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0010 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: 5fc1960e34606ea62380e1b9582c2fb972a4e4d18a8156b705cf20ef2381635f
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