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What Smart Contracts Need to Learn - Lawbitrage
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Laquo; Automation Could Speed Trade Finance, But Companies Are Slow to Adopt. Regulating Bitcoin and Block Chain Derivatives ». September 04, 2014. What Smart Contracts Need to Learn. The legal scholar and technologist Nick Szabo described what may happen to someone that breaches a smart car lease: if the owner fails to make payments, the smart contract invokes the lien protocol, which [automatically] returns control of the car keys to the bank. Smart contracts could therefore reduce the need for litigat...
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Lawbitrage: blockchain
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January 19, 2016. Speaking Engagements - First Half 2016. The following are my speaking engagements for the first half of 2016 on various aspects of fintech, smart contracts, blockchains, and Bitcoin:. Jan 10: American Association of Law Schools 110th Annual Meeting: Section on Economic Globalization and Governance, The Future of Global Finance: A Roundtable. Jan 22: Journal of Law, Economics, and Policy, 12th Annual Symposium. San Francisco, California. 0160;Self-Executing Smart Contracts on the Blockch...
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Emerging Bitcoin Derivatives Offer Choice to Merchants and Institutional Investors - Lawbitrage
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Laquo; Regulating Bitcoin and Block Chain Derivatives. Why Cryptoequity May Not Be Securities ». November 06, 2014. Emerging Bitcoin Derivatives Offer Choice to Merchants and Institutional Investors. Products being developed for large, sophisticated players is usually a sign of a maturing market. And the Bitcoin market is no different. Until recently, derivatives based on Bitcoin, such as those offered by ICBIT. The first Tera Bitcoin derivatives trade was executed on October 9, 2014, between digitalBTC.
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Automation Could Speed Trade Finance, But Companies Are Slow to Adopt - Lawbitrage
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Laquo; Making Sense of Bitcoin Derivatives Regulation. What Smart Contracts Need to Learn ». August 21, 2014. Automation Could Speed Trade Finance, But Companies Are Slow to Adopt. The overwhelming majority of global trade is financed either by companies themselves (through trade credit) or by bank-intermediated trade finance, which is estimated. 0160;by the Bank for International Settlements to support a third of world trade. Letters of Credit and Open Accounts. But letters of credit are falling out of ...
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Why Cryptoequity May Not Be Securities - Lawbitrage
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Laquo; Emerging Bitcoin Derivatives Offer Choice to Merchants and Institutional Investors. Empowering Distributed Autonomous Companies ». November 12, 2014. Why Cryptoequity May Not Be Securities. The year is 1941 and the place is Lake County, Florida, a town just outside of Orlando with a population of about 30,000. The W.J. Howey Company, then operated by Dodge Taylor. Over the summer, Ethereum. 0160;reportedly pre-sold over $12 million worth of cryptoequity tokens to fund the operation of its distribu...
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Regulating Bitcoin and Block Chain Derivatives - Lawbitrage
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Laquo; What Smart Contracts Need to Learn. Emerging Bitcoin Derivatives Offer Choice to Merchants and Institutional Investors ». October 11, 2014. Regulating Bitcoin and Block Chain Derivatives. On October 9th, 2014 I presented before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) at its Bitcoin hearing. I also provided a written statement that discusses how the CFTC should approach regulating derivatives that reference Bitcoin and smart contract derivatives that are made. Posted by Houman Shadab. Nov 4...
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Empowering Distributed Autonomous Companies - Lawbitrage
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Laquo; Why Cryptoequity May Not Be Securities. In itBit We Trust ». February 21, 2015. Empowering Distributed Autonomous Companies. It is difficult to overstate the growing importance of software to companies, whether it be in the form of automated trading, web-based applications and data storage, or monitoring systems to comply with regulation. But software may soon also be changing the very nature of business enterprises by giving rise to digital companies that operate autonomously. 0160;to be altered.
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The Blockchain Workshops Land in London. Are a series of events around block chain technology with an academic core, focused on evolution of the technologies in areas beyond finance to incude identity, smart contracts and more. The London edition of the series is scheduled for June 13-16, 2015 with a hands-on workshop and a hackathon, followed by a policy round table and a two day conference. Get Tickets. On the 15-16th June, a public agenda conference will cover the following topics:. Makers to develop ...
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Lawbitrage: Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission. November 06, 2014. Emerging Bitcoin Derivatives Offer Choice to Merchants and Institutional Investors. Products being developed for large, sophisticated players is usually a sign of a maturing market. And the Bitcoin market is no different. Until recently, derivatives based on Bitcoin, such as those offered by ICBIT. The first Tera Bitcoin derivatives trade was executed on October 9, 2014, between digitalBTC. 0160;and another party. digitalBTC is a publicly liste...
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Lawbitrage: Securities and Exchange Commission
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Securities and Exchange Commission. November 12, 2014. Why Cryptoequity May Not Be Securities. The year is 1941 and the place is Lake County, Florida, a town just outside of Orlando with a population of about 30,000. The W.J. Howey Company, then operated by Dodge Taylor. Over the summer, Ethereum. 0160;reportedly pre-sold over $12 million worth of cryptoequity tokens to fund the operation of its distributed application software platform. The Ethereum tokens are required for developers to implement so...