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Legally, creating a company without humans is impossible, but in practice, well:

Registering Planet Money's Delaware company took one day and three emails. The company that set it up for us asked for absolutely no documentation. I gave them my real name, but I could have been anybody from anywhere in the world.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/27/157421340/how-t...

Of course, opening a bank account to receive the income of those rides would be a different story.



The bank account issue at least is solved by Bitcoin.

Maybe some businesses don't need to be real businesses - especially illegal ones :-/

I wonder about the consequences of running an illegal business on the blockchain, though. Say, a marketplace for drugs on Ethereum. Worst case it would make using Ethereum illegal?




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