[scandox]

Well I'm entirely new to this and pretty blockchain sceptical but I don't think SeckimJohn showed why neither work, did he?

As I understand it each concern requires some kind of function/method which addresses it within the smart contract, right? So the real problem is that once you publish the contract you better make sure you haven't forgotten something important...

[jackpeterfletch]

Basically both examples in order to work would need legal enforcement or guardianship outside of Ethereum.

Which they both need to work today anyway. So whats the point?

Until ether contracts can hold people to their word, are recognised by the judicial system (which wouldn't be able to effect it without some weird judge API), or is able to enforce some kind of judiciary process itsefl (SKYNET WARNING), they'll always break down at the physical barrier.

[wlll]

He didn't show that neither work, but the examples he did give were trivially bypassed and didn't seem "real world" at all.

For instance, I can't think of any corporate structures that splits income in half. Usually the money is run through the company and costs etc. are taken out first. So this isn't a real world example?

[Joeboy]

Right, the examples are just missing the step of "somehow make sure this isn't as bad an idea as it looks".