Published in Good Audience·Feb 22, 2019Member-onlyCrypto-tort-legal-systems.Why should coders familiarize with Tort Law? Liability imputation and Tort Law systems are one of the least walked and most relevant paths on the short term in the Blockchain space. Even if it currently seems to be an inoffensive, non-applicable regulatory framework, it will be. Tort Law comes into…Blockchain6 min readBlockchain6 min read
Jan 28, 2019A non-controversial response to a quite controversial post.Laws aren´t created on demand and aren´t as easy to understand and write about as it may seem. A week ago, I wrote a post entitled “the perfect marriage between Law and Code”, where I suggested that an equilibrium of both elements will be the end of the path that’s…Blockchain5 min readBlockchain5 min read
Jan 21, 2019Nothing better than a happy marriage between Code and LawEven though it was created originally to support Bitcoin, Blockchains are something deeper: a technological solution for human trust-based transactions. Nonetheless, trust may never be enabled onchain without an effective governance system. …Blockchain4 min readBlockchain4 min read
Feb 4, 2018Cryptocurrencies may finish with tax systems as we know them.“The Information Age has meant a revolution. A revolution, among others, in the distribution of resources” “Privately generated wealth that heretofore has been commanded by the nation-state will be retained instead by those who earned it”. 1997. 20 years ago James Dale Davidson believed that the shift from traditional industry…Bitcoin5 min readBitcoin5 min read
Published in Good Audience·Jan 2, 20182018 — The DAOs returnSince the “hack” of The DAO, this organizational structure has not been much used, I believe partially because of the reputational damage it caused, and partially due to its intrinsic complexity, especially for those who are not familiar with decentralized governance and/or blockchain. Nevertheless, if 2017 has been the year…Ethereum4 min readEthereum4 min read
Dec 28, 2017El futuro se está diseñando (en Tokens)Después de una reñida encuesta vía Twitter, la mayoría decidió que el próximo post que escribía trataría sobre Tokens, por lo que allá vamos. El 2017 ha sido sin duda el año de los Tokens ERC20, y su killer app, las ICOs. Sin embargo, en estos últimos meses del año…Protocol Tokens5 min readProtocol Tokens5 min read
Dec 12, 2017La fiebre del Bitcoin y las ICOs, (y mis disculpas por los paréntesis).La primera ICO (Initial Coin Offering) tuvo lugar en 2013, con Mastercoin. Sin embargo, no se hicieron populares hasta principios de este año. En términos generales (hay muchos matices que me dejo fuera para poder ir al grano), las ICOs son un mecanismo a través del cual se generan tokens…Token Sale7 min readToken Sale7 min read
Nov 14, 2017Will Europe aim for Digital (self sovereign) Identity?Last week, the Spanish Government approved the draft bill for the New Data Protection National Law. It did so, after publication of GDPR in the EU Official Journal in May 2016, it will come into force on May 25, 2018. The aim of the GDPR is to protect all EU…Privacy6 min readPrivacy6 min read
Oct 24, 2017Fat Protocols — primera aproximación al modelo “token”En 2016, Joel Monegro publicó un post titulado “Fat Protocols” en el que expuso como en su opinión, el valor en la era de Internet hasta el momento, había residido en la capa de las aplicaciones — esto es- la capa que se construía sobre la base de los protocolos…Token3 min readToken3 min read
Published in techburst·Oct 8, 2017Legal framework for present crypto propertyBlockchaus together with MME, through the CryptoValley association distributed a paper last week, proposing an initiative that aims to establish a legal framework to be used for regulatory and critical risk-assessment purposes. …Blockchain3 min readBlockchain3 min read
