Crypto Law Review

The CryptoLaw debate is heating up; here’s what you need to know.

How mistakes in the “smart contract” genesis block weaken the whole chain.

Earlier this week (on Sunday night, in fact), I came across a definition and understanding of ``legal systems” that has really cleared up…

The New York Department of Financial Services (‘NYDFS’) announced on 8 September 2018 that it had approved the launch of two…

On this point, the question for CryptoLovers is whether they want agencies like the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to…

Two of the sharpest minds in crypto disagree on what it means to agree. Or do they?

What follows is a non-exhaustive shell/draft/kernel/etc. bibliography on blockchain governance.

Crypto for Regulators (CfR), Part 4 — the power of states to regulate crypto legal relations.

Regulators have a hard job when it comes to crypto; let’s make it easier.

The latest crypto-regulatory story concerns charges brought against Zachary Coburn, founder of the unlicensed decentralized EtherDelta…

Many CryptoCats think of themselves as Anarchists or Austrians; but in their view of Law & State, they are eerily Soviet. This presents a…

How crypto responds to legitimate green critiques defines how regulators will respond to crypto.

“To regulate or not to regulate,” that is the question.

Like it or hate it, CryptoLaw is here to stay. This is a theory of what it’s doing & how it’s doing it.

The inventor of “smart contracts” rejects critique. That says a lot about the inventor and sheds bad light on the underlying invention…

Global blockchains = global blockchain governance.

Response to Vlad Zamfir’s Blockchain Governance 101

Borrowers salivate at cheap CryptoCredit; lenders salivate at easy CryptoProfits; everyone should be very careful before going all in.

September 28, 2018

What Wiki Analytics Teach Us About CryptoLaw

Crypto sees “Law” as the problem & “CryptoLaw” as a solution. Crypto should see law as a matrix, instead.

Crypto’s anti-law arguments resemble familiar arbitration v. litigation tropes. That’s not a good thing.

If you want to go to the Moon, you have to follow some ground rules. Or do you?