Hamilton's Law is not a limit on growth. It is a direction for it. Same mathematics. The 1/3 constraint decides which way it compounds.
The most important question in computing right now is not what AI can do. It is who controls it.
In 2017, Chris McCoy discovered that five independent governance systems, across eight centuries, had all derived the same mathematical threshold for preventing the capture of distributed power. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy derived it through the structure of their Great Law of Peace. The Third Lateran Council encoded it into the election of popes in 1179. The Roman Republic structured consular authority around the same constraint. The American founders encoded it into the Constitution nine times in 1787. Leslie Lamport proved it formally in 1982 for distributed computing. None of them knew the others had arrived at the same number.
Hamilton's Law: Stability proportional to N times (1 minus max(P_c)). The bigger the network, the more stable and distributed it becomes, if the constraint holds.
Compare this to Metcalfe's Law, which governs every unconstrained network: Value proportional to n squared. The bigger the network, the more power concentrates at the center. Same n squared compounding. The constraint decides which direction it goes.
STORE Research Inc. is the production experiment. Since 2020: $30 million in real economic decisions, 126 governors across more than 30 countries, zero constitutional violations. At community scale: 187 voters in Kelso, Washington, 97.22% approval, July 9, 2024.
The research produced 33 patent families in preparation for provisional filing. The portfolio closes at 33 because Hamilton's Law limits any single actor's claim to one-third of any field. STORE Research claims its third. The theorem is free for the next builders.
STORE and Trusted America are two sovereign implementations of the same constitutional mathematics, the way Delaware and California are two sovereign states operating under the same Constitution. STORE governs AI. Trusted America governs America. The mathematics are identical.
Through McCoy Ventures, he invests in the inputs that drive computing and AI: bandwidth, chips, energy, crypto, metals, AI itself, and in technologies that distribute opportunity rather than concentrate power. Portfolio includes Lightcell Energy, Tangible Robotics, Zestworld, Encore, foundational blockchain projects including STORE, Ethereum, and Bitcoin.
McCoy is the Founder and CEO of STORE Research Inc., Founding Partner of McCoy Ventures, and the second cousin three times removed of two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling (Chemistry 1954, Peace 1962).
