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Dynamic Common Law And Technological Change: The Classification Of Bitcoin, Shawn Bayern Sep 2014

Dynamic Common Law And Technological Change: The Classification Of Bitcoin, Shawn Bayern

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

Most legal analysis of Bitcoin has addressed public-law and regulatory matters, such as taxation, securities regulation, and money laundering. This essay considers some questions that Bitcoin raises from a private-law perspective, and it aims to show that technological innovation may highlight problems with conceptualistic, classical rules of private law.