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Bitcoin Battle

Bitcoin Battle

War-gaming BTC v. BCH v. BSV strategies.
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Token Taxonomy Frameworks

Token Taxonomy Frameworks

Blockchain’s full potential lies beyond “security v. utility”
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Crypto State & Religion

Crypto State & Religion

Everyone knows crypto is tribal. Here’s a sketch of cryptos as churches.
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Thank you for this great critique. A few stream-of-consciousness thoughts in response.

-Relevance to Today: the Soviet comparison is not just a historical/philosophical one. It has direct relevance to the postures, strategies…
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Blockchain Governance 114: Sovereignty & Intervention

Blockchain Governance 114: Sovereignty & Intervention

Does global blockchain governance necessarily mean “public” intervention into “private” legal relations — ?
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Crypto Delisting Law & Policy

Crypto Delisting Law & Policy

Crypto exchanges have the right to “delist” tokens & coins like BSV. But what’s the scope of those rights?
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Genericide: Trademarking “Blockchain”

Genericide: Trademarking “Blockchain”

In this article, we discuss generic and merely descriptive marks , and how these 2 types of marks apply to “blockchain” and…
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Ledgerback
Anaïs Urlichs’ — (In)formal Blockchain Governance

Anaïs Urlichs’ — (In)formal Blockchain Governance

On governance protocols and the importance of formalising (in)formal governance processes
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Anaïs Urlichs
Looking for the Soul in Satoshi’s work

Looking for the Soul in Satoshi’s work

Helping Crypto Law & Crypto Theology Come to Life
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Anuj Das Gupta
We the People: Can constitutions unify blockchain communities?

We the People: Can constitutions unify blockchain communities?

Why constitutions are the beginning and end for blockchain communities.
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Ledgerback
Andrea Leiter Joins Crypto Law Review — Welcome!

Andrea Leiter Joins Crypto Law Review — Welcome!

On September 28, 2018, CleanApp Foundation announced the launch of Crypto Law Review. In only five months, we have grown to nearly 400…
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Crypto Jurisdiction

Crypto Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction is a complex legal doctrine, but a fairly simple concept. Jurisdiction is how legal regimes govern crypto, and how crypto…
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[LIVE COVERAGE] 8th Rebooting Web of Trust (#RWOT8)

[LIVE COVERAGE] 8th Rebooting Web of Trust (#RWOT8)

A group of coders and thinkers are in Barcelona to re-think the nature of “Identity” and “Trust” for the 21st century. Here’s what’s going…
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CZ & Pomp on Crypto Law

CZ & Pomp on Crypto Law

Binance is what happens when folks understand that legal ambiguity is a feature as much as a bug.
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Legal Frameworks for PoW → PoS

Legal Frameworks for PoW → PoS

To understand how PoS will work legally, we must understand today’s legal frameworks for PoW.
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Are “Smart Contracts” Legal?

Are “Smart Contracts” Legal?

Yes, No, Maybe — and why “getting to maybe” is so important.
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Intro to Wyoming Crypto Law

Intro to Wyoming Crypto Law

New legislation seeks to clarify the law of blockchain. Does it?
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Crypto Lawyers Gone Wild

Crypto Lawyers Gone Wild

When the stakes are high, there’s little room for error.
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If that was the case then crypto teams wouldn’t need to pay $500K in legal fees to launch tokens.

Immunity from governmental oversight might be an aspiration for many crypto teams, but the decision to tap into established legal forms…
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Zamfir v. Szabo on Governance & Law

Zamfir v. Szabo on Governance & Law

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

Crypto’s Founding Fallacy

How mistakes in the “smart contract” genesis block weaken the whole chain.
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CleanApp’s Response to Buterin re: Law & Physics

The CryptoLaw debate is heating up. That’s a very good sign for crypto.
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Against Szabo’s Law, For A New Crypto Legal System

Against Szabo’s Law, For A New Crypto Legal System

Earlier this week (on Sunday night, in fact), I came across a definition and understanding of ``legal systems” that has really cleared up…
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Vlad Zamfir
Paxos and Gemini: the dangers of unbundled blockchain banking, and the end of the ‘trustless’ dream

Paxos and Gemini: the dangers of unbundled blockchain banking, and the end of the ‘trustless’ dream

The New York Department of Financial Services (‘NYDFS’) announced on 8 September 2018 that it had approved the launch of two…
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Rory Copeland
Ummmm … hate to break it to you, but CryptoLovers should not have used legacy legal concepts (and…

Ummmm … hate to break it to you, but CryptoLovers should not have used legacy legal concepts (and…

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