Crypto communities often double down on three fallacies that limit its freedom. №1 Crypto often mistakes ideas as innovative that are actually established convention within the last 40 plus years of business schools and corporate/investment law. Within the bitcoin universe, for example, the meme of bitcoin as ‘digital gold’ and…

In my last entry, the conversation focused on how concerns/theories of freedom animate law tech debates surrounding blockchain technologies. Two themes seem to run beneath most theories of freedom. First, usually freedom is oriented to how something can be monetised. Words like ‘disruption’, more often than not, just mean ‘privatisation’…

This is meant as the first of a series of very brief reflections about ongoing conversations within the social media interface of ‘lawtech’. In my experience, a reoccurring question echoes in a variety of ways through our law/tech discussions: ‘Can we develop relationships outside the confines of state-backed law?’ Beneath…