legal: company / jurisdication

[ahdinosaur]

question is whether to

• do business as Root Systems Ltd
• incorporate a new company in the US (under my name)

[ahdinosaur]

i notice that Hashbase is a Delaware company:

[danalexilewis]

What criteria are you using for this? Eg

• ease of set up (RS would be easy)
• location (US for some reason?)
• security from being forced to disclose data (I mean as it’s all encrypted I’m not sure if this is an issue - but maybe there is meta data that could be forced to hand over), if so maybe Switzerland. I notice that’s where proton mail setup.

[ahdinosaur]

I mean as it’s all encrypted I’m not sure if this is an issue

uh, at the moment Scuttlebutt is more a public record, only private messages are encrypted and they are still "on the record" (connected to everything else on the record).

[danalexilewis]

Oh right - so you don’t need a key to decrypt the record? That seems like a basic misunderstanding I have had of how ssb works.

In that case I’d say in the long run the jurisdiction of the service company for peach cloud should be in a location that has strong data protection laws/leanings.

For now it’s what ever is easiest for you.

[ahdinosaur]

well, is Root Systems keen to do business as PeachCloud?

[danalexilewis]

@ahdinosaur you are Root Systems as much as any of us - if you want to use the company as shell for now in the same way as Tapin and TTB have I think you have the agency/mandate to to decide this. The only considerations I will want to check are operational risks and is insurance coverage needed.

If the question is more "does Root Systems want to pickup and run the businesses of peachclound - that will need a broader conversation on rolls and responsibilities. We could have this conversation at our retreat next week :)