Blockchain and the Law, Aaron Wright
Blockchain and the Law, Aaron Wright
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Blockchain and the Law
The Rule of Code

Author: Aaron Wright, Primavera De Filippi

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/21/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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.

About Aaron Wright

Aaron Wright is associate clinical professor of law and director of the Blockchain Project at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard

I am a lawyer. I have worked on several blockchain projects and have read a number of books and articles about blockchain, so I had a good grounding in the subject before I picked up this book. It's a good thing that I did because I think that I might have had some trouble understanding parts of it......more

Goodreads review by Nelson

If you're lawyer or you're pursuing something related with laws and bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, I think this is an excellent book to start understanding how two worlds can combine and make the market we have today. More important, it's mandatory to understand this book as a guide through dif......more

Goodreads review by Sasha

The book is an excellent treatment of a complex and complicated new technology such as the blockchain, which can't be said for most of the work on the topic. The author's lens is of a legal scholar, and the book posits opportunities and threats of the technology and its various uses, all while avoid......more