The Evolution of Law in the Digital Age
Ethereum is gaining momentum and blossoming with tutorials on how to make useful projects. The models are getting easier to use for noobs like me. I like this one from Consensys: A 101 Noob Intro to Programming Smart Contracts on Read More …
Blockchain and law: inevitable bedfellows One of the promised boons of blockchain technology is elimination of lawyers and other middlemen in commerce, but for seminal blockchain creators, law is as important a facet of distributed ledger as the value Read More …
The Bank for International Settlements is the central bankers’ central bank. Located in Basel, Switzerland, the BIS was begun to facilitate German war reparations payments after World War I and it has maintained its status as the linchpin of international Read More …
Blockchain technology has the potential to streamline much more than banking. Any repeatable recording of patterns of change is amenable to expression in dry code. For example, in a blockchain-based legal infrastructure, title is indisputable, documents self-authenticate and contracts self-execute. Read More …
The evolution of law follows this pattern: new property —-> new contracts —-> new torts —-> new regulation.
There’s a lot of talk about applications for Blockchain 2.0, a vague term that includes a host of ideas of things people can do with Bitcoin technology. Cryptocurrency consortium organizer R3 published Watermarked tokens and pseudonymity on the public blockchain, Read More …
I’ve been assimilating a lot of articles and videos about how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can create contracts outside the realm of legal space. Cryptographic law is self-enforcing, but is still, however indirectly, tied to the world of flesh-and-blood humans, which Read More …
Chris Odom, founder of Stash, spoke to a group of BItcoin investors in November. His advice was to look forward when building Bitcoin business models. For example, he cautioned that analytics based on the current bitcoin protocols will be passe Read More …
Earlier this year I wrote a method for teaching legal analysis by repurposing a law school writing rubric to be a reflexive, Watson-like learning algorithm. The response from law professors tended to be “interesting, but so progressive it’s scary.” The Read More …
Ethereum’s Devcon1 is full of epic speeches, but I like to read. Nick Szabo, wizard computer scientist and legal/economic thinker rumoured to be Bitcoin’s founder Satoshi Nakamoto, followed up his speech with a tweet about Proplets, a way of managing Read More …