[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-brian-obeirne":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Brian O’Beirne is an intellectual property lawyer and the chief operating officer of Reality Network, a decentralised computing project whose client software lets people contribute spare capacity from their own laptops, desktops and phones, so that applications run on user devices rather than on central servers.","He studied law in Ireland, took the BCL at the University of Oxford, covering legal and political philosophy, criminology and constitutional theory, and an LLM in law and technology at the University of California, Berkeley. He began a doctorate in legal and political philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, left it in 2014, moved to California and was admitted to the California bar in 2016. He practised at Gunderson Dettmer in Silicon Valley, advising startups and investors on intellectual property and asset protection, and later served as director of research for Kasei Holdings in London.","His link to the Free Cities movement runs through Próspera, the private jurisdiction on the Honduran island of Roatán, where he is working on a digital asset regulatory framework on the network’s behalf and where it intends to hold its token generation event. He is based on the island.","The subject he argues about in public sits where his two careers meet. He has written on blockchain governance as a form of social architecture, treating a protocol’s rules as a question of institutional design rather than of engineering, which is the same question a new jurisdiction has to answer about its own law.",1789144613286]