# Vinay Gupta - Internet of Agreements conference

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [647]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/<id>.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages.

## Where this source sits

- Source: video, 2017-12-26 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dql3Z9MpPhU. Text: automatic captions, uncorrected
- On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the law step (Mattereum, 2017), before the great powers step (Multipolar Realpolitik, 2024).
- How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Why the contracting layer must be anchored in state law for property to be secure.
- Career works it belongs to:
  - Internet of Agreements conferences (2017): Hosted four London conferences on blockchain agreements: law, trade, identity and space.
  - Copyright and the digital economy: a case for reason (2010): Short paper proposing land law, with rights of way and trespass, as a better model for copying than theft:... (suggested by machine)
  - Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): Blog essay proposing the escrownym: an identity lodged with escrow brokers under a legally binding... (suggested by machine)
  - A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should... (suggested by machine)
- Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of:
  - CheapID to Mattereum: One identity pattern, from a person's ID card in 2006 to warranties on physical goods in 2017.
  - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine)
  - cryptographic applications: Cryptography applied: from 1990s cypherpunk practice to identity cards, Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine)
  - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine)
- Topics: Property, NFTs & real-estate transactions (17%); Burning Man shelter building (17%); Bitcoin, libertarianism & the state (17%)
- Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: expertise (4 here; 65 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); cyber (2 here; 32 sources in all, earliest dated 2009)
- Importance: core-text score 0.48 (1.00 is the top), number 112 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation
- Related sources:
  - [618] [Vinay Gupta - Space - Internet of Agreements (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/618.md): same career work: Internet of Agreements conferences
  - [166] Rob Knight — on the Internet of Agreements project | by... (2018): same career work: Internet of Agreements conferences
- On the same works, just before: [40] [First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – Internet... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md); [660] How to make smart contracts legally binding? I Mihai... (2017); [657] [Legal Panel - Internet of Agreements conference (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/657.md)
- On the same works, just after: [837] [23 Feb 18 Trade – Internet of Agreements (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md); [851] [Global governance in the era of blockchain. (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/851.md); [635] [Ian Grigg (Chamapesa) and Vinay Gupta (Mattereum) on... (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/635.md)

## Reading it

Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it.

Cite as: Vinay Gupta - Internet of Agreements conference, video, 2017-12-26, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dql3Z9MpPhU; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [647], https://guptaoption.com/texts/647.md.

Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps.

## Passages
[0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dql3Z9MpPhU&t=0s) [Music] so lots of different people of different ways whose property something case all these views but something these results haven't the we did something becomes properties serious state makes it seriously only property it's not our problem so object method which doesn't rely on state seeing fertilizer is Bitcoin privately inside about ten system the original he is on your property in a de facto way each juror if somebody steals your Bitcoin Keys then scoot back on me but inside the big amount system because the paper existing files loose paper if you have key eats your paper

[2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dql3Z9MpPhU&t=150s) is human and massage systems and mechanical systems have been favored watching is not gonna be dormant trip right now moves of muhammad's when somebody gets their bed console burn is the assembled private because Jeremy came down with cyber expertise to prosecutors and cases in front of the cover Bob so to the loose part put asunder going to talk to cyber crimes heart rate across but when we start using multi using this stuff right the mismatch between watching says the property situation is government situation is usually sensible that the expertise and results reporters be extremely surprising so low investment experience so this is one of these ain't go smooth moving manageable problems eventually something to do there are tons and tons and tons of folk looted out making smart all types legally enforceable in the wall streamlined efficient using smartphone technology heard those many many variations on a theme blue formal formal semantics brightly to the enormous market [Music] so

[5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dql3Z9MpPhU&t=300s) there's no reason in principle because what we're designing here are rappers or socio technical systems which understandable by all these new technical systems I forget this run Oh beautifully is he messed running awful face off between the kind of new world in which private Keys defined ownership the old world worship the final solution and we can smooth out those gaps so that we see less and less misunderstanding in the situation to the world hopefully what we get is accelerated progress new orders this term just drop in the situation itself cno's like Unbeatables processes is she pregnant so

[7:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dql3Z9MpPhU&t=450s) it was a whole bunch of nice things all work perfectly viewers madness he said I live in harmony and apartments building about trust is not just about the technology flawless it's also about not getting you know harvested probably conducted litigation apparent difference you have to be in a position for every process is removed these move society older technologies anyway which is beneficial enough for parties understand under some impulses was transmitted so that's essentially material why at the private colleges overviewing finished a certain rule there's on patient Jung hoon school poems p39 Richard W right napkin on request only company who comes with very serious you but Lisa you complete pictures and you say how much will devices somebody else can't see picture my system I didn't execute legal contract for robot license which will whether to use the image in a publication for commercial purposes and get measles right now run against a stacked against me mail room additional features together contrite some photographers use and it's basically leaders at Moses to shoot you can actually hover English people ideas about how to transform these life you two distinctive don't people talk about hopping in create a new search or supplement powers inside the certain vision of consequence hold us

[10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dql3Z9MpPhU&t=600s) great and one of those rings crafts and you wind up the control of my decisions it's going to be very difficult process to an underwater side equally sources so event license there are also cases down the basic altitude it's the integration all mule as such we may forget this Antipater there's beautiful part of the American Asian American so surprising dysentery but I think European model is much more interpretive and for all then we can introduce a platform will be very limited dresses and stuff but actually in both my story needs assistance shapes anything you can imagine as apps and services but when you started the distributions and so developed not true princess and solve a fundamental problems even with all this technology I think largely because look we won the truck the systems over the world fun runs so our indigenous people initially wanted up with parties one of those ears to detangle system says one of them here's what this little system done we've referred the third of his team lamination the technical of the physical later cherry part the facilities somebody would possibly fix this problem of romics

[12:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dql3Z9MpPhU&t=750s) pieces these are upon doing something just [Music] so they people on the nation's end of the number one getting of forests technology lab I didn't we go about building a pecan nuts on the sparkle trucks 14 degree resistance also had to do renovation I thought proof says building expertise of Kolkata construction paper farm is basically you're betting our objectives these astronauts world be truly paradise introduced our other assistance eliminationism eight on our board assistance to on nation advances conference this is our motivation you said these three times because main complexity call second in denomination is to classify the world including creates and uses so if you didn't notice Elgin stop me from our poverty and your smartphone drive doesn't mean they should lead rope and the entire network or international wall I'm not sure what the compact was tendon transfers oh there's nothing to system so Aldens purposes but employee tons of grievances and expertise and then I'll just say take only to those they get the benefits luxuries and smartphones and this is an incredibly that paper based approach compared to what a lot would be expected later whilst you know right now sure he needs and they start using good so we're going to do this hard way until the to arrives

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End of [647] Vinay Gupta - Internet of Agreements conference. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt.
Read next: next on the same works, [837](https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md) 23 Feb 18 Trade – Internet of Agreements (2018); the most closely related, [618](https://guptaoption.com/texts/618.md) Vinay Gupta - Space - Internet of Agreements (2018); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.