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Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code (eBook)


ISBN13: 9780674985919
Published: April 2018
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: USA
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Since Bitcoin appeared in 2009, the digital currency has been hailed as an Internet marvel and decried as the preferred transaction vehicle for all manner of criminals. It has left nearly everyone without a computer science degree confused: Just how do you “mine” money from ones and zeros?

The answer lies in a technology called blockchain, which can be used for much more than Bitcoin. A general-purpose tool for creating secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer applications, blockchain technology has been compared to the Internet itself in both form and impact.

Some have said this tool may change society as we know it. Blockchains are being used to create autonomous computer programs known as “smart contracts,” to expedite payments, to create financial instruments, to organize the exchange of data and information, and to facilitate interactions between humans and machines.

The technology could affect governance itself, by supporting new organizational structures that promote more democratic and participatory decision making.

Primavera De Filippi and Aaron Wright acknowledge this potential and urge the law to catch up. That is because disintermediation—a blockchain’s greatest asset—subverts critical regulation. By cutting out middlemen, such as large online operators and multinational corporations, blockchains run the risk of undermining the capacity of governmental authorities to supervise activities in banking, commerce, law, and other vital areas.

De Filippi and Wright welcome the new possibilities inherent in blockchains. But as Blockchain and the Law makes clear, the technology cannot be harnessed productively without new rules and new approaches to legal thinking.

Subjects:
Banking and Finance, eBooks, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, IT, Internet and Artificial Intelligence Law
Contents:
Introduction
I. The Technology
1. Blockchains, Bitcoin, and Decentralized Computing Platforms
2. Characteristics of Blockchains
II. Blockchains, Finance, and Contracts
3. Digital Currencies and Decentralized Payment Systems
4. Smart Contracts as Legal Contracts
5. Smart Securities and Derivatives
III. Blockchains and Information Systems
6. Tamper-Resistant, Certified, and Authenticated Data
7. Resilient and Tamper-Resistant Information Systems
IV. Organizations and Automation
8. The Future of Organizations
9. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
10. Blockchain of Things
V. Regulating Decentralized, Blockchain-Based Systems
11. Modes of Regulation
12. Code as Law
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index;