article by Jacob Senftinger [Editorial Note: this article was originally published in German here; we’re grateful for the chance to share it more broadly, and (time-permitting) will translate into English] In diesem ersten Beitrag erfahren Sie, was positives Kryptorecht bzw. Kryptorecht im weiteren Sinne ist und welche Themen hier in…

Part 1 in a series exploring the nature, function and limits of trademark law in crypto, wrapped in terms of legitimacy. — If Google decided to basically clone Ethereum’s Proof-of-Stake research and launch its own blockchain under the name ‘Casper’ (with a corresponding public sale of a token called $CSPR), would that be legal? Beyond its immediately legality, would that maneuver be legitimate in the eyes of the global blockchain community? Would…

TrashCash is a hypothetical name for a blockchain-based reward scheme that basically incentivizes people to do any combination of three related and extremely valuable tasks: report waste/hazards (such as broken glass bottles on a beach; motor oil dumped behind a gas station; etc) analyze/verify existing reports respond to the object/condition…

’Twas the night before halving, and on #CryptoTwitter Not a creature was stirring, not even @pet3rpan_ peter The buy orders were placed on exchanges with care, In hopes the price rebound soon would be there; The bitcoiners nestled all snug in their beds; While visions of citadels danced in their…

On Black Friday 2019, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York put out a press release announcing the arrest of a prominent Etherean — Virgil Griffith. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest Of United States Citizen For Assisting North Korea In… Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant…www.justice.gov

Below is a brief response to Angela Walch’s Open-Source Operational Risk: Should Public Blockchains Serve as Financial Market Infrastructures?, in Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Vol. 2 (David Lee Kuo Chuen & Robert Deng, eds., Elsevier 2017). FMI = Financial Market Infrastructure AW = Angela Walch CA =…

The common law tradition includes many legal systems modeled on the English system. These common law systems are basically ex- or present-day English colonies, including the US, Australia, New Zealand, India, parts of Canada, etc.

Below is a collection of some Crypto Law Review articles exploring questions of contract law. (In reverse chronological order — most recent above, latest below.) Contract Law Around the World (November 22, 2019) (4m) (summary of K formation elements & standards from several jurisdictions, and intro to Schlesinger’s functionalist comparative…

What are the rules of contract formation in different jurisdictions? What are important areas of convergence? — In the last few days, we published a few quick primers on English & American contract formation law. Contract Formation Under US Law The rules of contract (“K”) formation in the US are relatively straightforward. Here’s what you need to know:medium.com How to Form a Contract Under English Law? The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce just released a Legal Statement on Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts. It is an important…medium.com