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A Lawyer’s Perspective: Can Smart Contracts Exist Outside the Legal Structure?

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Richard Howlett, Solicitor at Selachii LLP London.There can be no debate that technological development has never been...

Renowned Futurists Merkle, Hanson on the Future of Government Using DAOs and Prediction Markets

In May, Bitcoin Magazinecovered the spectacular launch of The DAO, a new kind of organization created and run using blockchain software rather than conventional...

The W3C and MIT Media Lab Host First ‘Blockchain and the Web’ Workshop

In June Bitcoin Magazinecovered the first Decentralized Web Summit, a gathering of developers striving to make the web open, secure and free of censorship...

Coinbase Suspends Canadian Dollar Services Amid $10.5M Raise From Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

San Francisco-based Coinbase, a leading Bitcoin exchange offering numerous services and products, has informed its Canadian users they must liquidate their CAD holdings by July...

Stealth Transactions and Reusable Payment Codes: How Bitcoin Addresses Can Be Hidden in Plain Sight

Bitcoin, right now, is not really anonymous. While Bitcoin addresses aren't necessarily linked to real-world identities, they can be. Monitoring the unencrypted peer-to-peer network, analysis...

How Governments Subsidize Bitcoin’s Usefulness and the Bitcoin Price

Bitcoin Core contributor, Peter Todd, was recently interviewed on Bitcoin Uncensored by co-hosts Chris DeRose and Joshua Unseth. Ethereum, The DAO, private blockchains and...

The Securities Law Implications of the DAO Hack and Proposed Ethereum Hard Fork

The top five blockchain crowdsales bore out of the Bitcoin 2.0 movement have raised more than a quarter-of-a-billion dollars in “initial coin offerings,” “token...

Local Trade and Decentralized Exchange: Protecting Privacy When Moving in and Out of Bitcoin

Exchanges, brokerages, money transmitters and other service providers that serve as the “on-ramps” and “off-ramps” between bitcoin and fiat currency, form an important part of the Bitcoin ecosystem. But from a privacy and fungibility perspective, a heavy reliance on these companies is not ideal: Practically all fiat-facing bitcoin-companies are required to apply AML/KYC-checks on their customers.

Circle Bets Big on China Amid New Capital Raise

“Bitcoin bank” Circle is betting big on China. The company has announced that it raised $60 million in a new Series D funding round...

Bitcoin Thrives in Moments Like Brexit

The Bitcoin price has stabilized on news of Britain leaving the European Union in a historically unprecedented move. The currency, which had corrected after...

BTCC’s Bobby Lee: Chinese Capital Controls Not a Factor in Recent Bitcoin Price Rise

As the price of Bitcoin continues its wild ride, expert observers weigh in on the reasons: China, halving, Japan, Brexit ‒ all seen as...

A Legal Analysis of the DAO Exploit and Possible Investor Rights

Important Disclaimer: NOTHING HEREIN IS INTENDED TO BE UNDERSTOOD AS LEGAL ADVICE. CONSULT A LAWYER QUALIFIED TO PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE IN YOUR JURISDICTION.News broke early...

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