it is if we're talking about binding ourselves to legal contracts that execute on the basis of the result of proof of work security instead of proof of stake and centralized-forking garbagecoins
The quality of HN posts on crypto is borderline - writing stuff like this pushes it off the edge towards flame wars and ‘All crypto is bad, just look at these flame wars’. Please try add more substance to posts, such as how PoW vs PoS has any impact on Code is Law (especially when Eth moves to PoS and Bitcoin becomes the last big PoW chain left, yet doesn’t have smart contracts).