The Evolution of Law in the Digital Age
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 …
Law professors Aaron Wright and Primavera de Filippi give a thorough yet accessible discussion of blockchain potential in Decentralized Blockchain Technology, published in March 2015. Many of the authors’ predictions have come true. Lawyers looking to understand decentralized blockchain technology should Read More …
On the path to learning data science, there is an obvious, bite-sized starting point: SQL, or secure query language. SQL is not a programming language. It’s the language humans use to interface with data in databases to add, delete or Read More …
Selachii, a London-based law firm, announced a venture with Stash to create self-executing blockchain contracts to meet the needs of big bank clients. Story courtesy Coindesk.
In the blockchain world, there are no names. Assets are associated with keys that can be traded like cash, directly, no intermediary required. The seeming anonymity of Bitcoin was what attracted drug traffickers to the Silk Road trading site, but Read More …
I’m in Continuing Legal Education today: “Secrets to Bulletproof Contract Drafting with Lenne Espenscheid.” One of the best CLEs I’ve attended. The themes: (a) plain language is best; (b) don’t use legalese — it’s “buggy;” and (c) the main goal Read More …
Courtesy of Williamha.com, Steve Jobs in archive video says that people should learn to code, because, like going to law school, it teaches them to think. William Ha is the author of Quit Law and Code.
Innotribe’s New Kids on the Block(chain) was filled with the big names from finance and crypto-startup communities. “[O]perating lawyers and compliance teams” are first on the list of humans affected by blockchain technology in mainstream commerce. “We are way past Read More …
One of the biggest challenges for lawyers in the blockchain space is getting our minds around how the technology works without getting lost in a sea of jargon. Fortunately, the common law itself provides a useful analogy for how distributed Read More …