Private Law Society
The Private Law Society is a decentralized system of justice, a network of contracts, arbitration, and reputation without governments.
About PLS
The Private Law Society (PLS) is a decentralized system of justice designed for a post-state world. Instead of relying on governments or territorial monopolies, it enables individuals and organizations to create, enforce, and resolve contracts through cryptography, voluntary participation, and reputation, forming a borderless framework for private law.
“With the monopoly of protection abolished, the problem of enforcement is turned over to freely competing individuals and agencies. Each person and institution is at liberty to participate or not to participate in such a scheme.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Private Production of Defense, 1998
At its core, PLS combines contracts, arbitration, and distributed trust mechanisms. Disputes are resolved by arbitrators chosen in advance, rulings are enforced through Bitcoin-based collateral or reputation, and participants remain free to exit or fork at any time. Justice emerges not from coercion, but from voluntary agreements, transparent rules, and aligned incentives.
PLS is built around two core protocols: the Bitcoin Justice Protocol (BJP) and the Web of Trust (WoT). BJP enables voluntary contracts and dispute resolution using Bitcoin as collateral and human arbitrators, while WoT provides a decentralized reputation layer on Nostr, where trust emerges from social endorsements rather than centralized scores. Together, they form the foundation for an independent, voluntary, and global legal order based on incentives and reputation—not authority.
See also:
Volunteer Team
Marcus
Development
Daniel
General
Paipe
General
Julio
Marketing
TheMhv
Development
Narcelio
Marketing
Theus
General
Rogerio
Development
Weasel
Development
Calango
Development
Wick
Development
Owltz
Development
How to contribute
Make a donation in Bitcoin
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Make a donation using Lightning
privatelawsociety@coinos.io
Contribute on GitHub
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