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Articles 1 - 19 of 19
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Does Bitcoin Use Affect Crime Rates?, Kevin Keane
Does Bitcoin Use Affect Crime Rates?, Kevin Keane
The Corinthian
Bitcoin is the most widely used cryptocurrency in the world because of its decentralized network that completes user-to-user transactions, eliminating the need for intermediaries. During 2017, the volume of Bitcoin transactions totaled $94.3 trillion. Bitcoin transactions are recorded in a public database called the blockchain. Although the blockchain can keep track of how many transactions there are, it can’t identify the people involved in transactions. The lack of identity increases the anonymity of Bitcoin transactions, making it less detectable when used for crime. Using the Uniform Crime Reporting’s state-level crime rate data and blockchain’s Bitcoin transaction information, I estimate the …
Blockchain Stock Ledgers, Kevin V. Tu
Blockchain Stock Ledgers, Kevin V. Tu
Indiana Law Journal
American corporate law contains a seemingly innocuous mandate. Corporations must maintain appropriate books and records, including a stock ledger with the corporation's shareholders and stock ownership. The importance of accurate stock ownership records is obvious. Corporations must know who owns each of its outstanding shares at any point in time. Among other things, this allows corporations to determine who receives dividends and who is entitled to vote. In theory, keeping accurate records of stock ownership should be a simple matter. But despite diligent efforts, serious share discrepancies plague corporations, and reconciliation is often functionally impossible. Doing so may require the …
A False Sense Of Security: How Congress And The Sec Are Dropping The Ball On Cryptocurrency, Tessa E. Shurr
A False Sense Of Security: How Congress And The Sec Are Dropping The Ball On Cryptocurrency, Tessa E. Shurr
Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)
Today, companies use blockchain technology and digital assets for a variety of purposes. This Comment analyzes the digital token. If the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) views a digital token as a security, then the issuer of the digital token must comply with the registration and extensive disclosure requirements of federal securities laws.
To determine whether a digital asset is a security, the SEC relies on the test that the Supreme Court established in SEC v. W.J. Howey Co. Rather than enforcing a statute or agency rule, the SEC enforces securities laws by applying the Howey test on a fact-intensive …
Airdrops: “Free” Tokens Are Not Free From Regulatory Compliance, Bridgett S. Bauer Esq.
Airdrops: “Free” Tokens Are Not Free From Regulatory Compliance, Bridgett S. Bauer Esq.
University of Miami Business Law Review
No abstract provided.
Blockchain Wills, Bridget J. Crawford
Blockchain Wills, Bridget J. Crawford
Indiana Law Journal
Blockchain technology has the potential to radically alter the way that people have
executed wills for centuries. This Article makes two principal claims—one
descriptive and the other normative. Descriptively, this Article suggests that
traditional wills formalities have been relaxed to the point that they no longer serve
the cautionary, protective, evidentiary, and channeling functions that scholars have
used to justify strict compliance with wills formalities. Widespread use of digital
technology in everyday communications has led to several notable cases in which
individuals have attempted to execute wills electronically. These wills have had a
mixed reception. Four states currently recognize electronic …
A Proposal For Taxing Cryptocurrency In The Midst Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Richard Thompson Ainsworth, Xiuyuan (Tony) Hu
A Proposal For Taxing Cryptocurrency In The Midst Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Richard Thompson Ainsworth, Xiuyuan (Tony) Hu
Faculty Scholarship
In this article, the authors present the case for a globally effective remedial tax on cryptocurrency transactions that could help fund multinational relief efforts, such as providing aid to jurisdictions affected by the COVID-19 virus and countries fighting the opioid crisis.
Cryptocurrencies: An Overview, Investment Investigation, Comparative Analysis, And Regulatory Proposals, Jacob Franzen
Cryptocurrencies: An Overview, Investment Investigation, Comparative Analysis, And Regulatory Proposals, Jacob Franzen
Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects
With cryptocurrencies moving out of obscurity and into the public eye, the initial purpose of this research paper is to provide the history of cryptocurrencies, to explain the complex workings in and around cryptocurrencies, investigate their investment potential, and to draw attention to their potential for misuse. To follow, the primary purpose is to create a platform on which to compare cryptocurrencies with more common mediums of exchange, analyze their current international regulatory climate, highlight their trends within influential nations, discuss their pending and future regulation, and provide personal proposals for additional regulation. Due to the complex nature of the …
Morrison And Cryptocurrencies: Is It Time To Revisit The Extraterritorial Application Of Rule 10b-5?, Eleanor B. Eastham
Morrison And Cryptocurrencies: Is It Time To Revisit The Extraterritorial Application Of Rule 10b-5?, Eleanor B. Eastham
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Digital Civil Turnover: A Targeted And Conceptual Scientific And Theoretical Approach, Sh. Ruzinazarov
Digital Civil Turnover: A Targeted And Conceptual Scientific And Theoretical Approach, Sh. Ruzinazarov
Review of law sciences
This article examines the role and importance of civilian science and a new trend in fundamental research in their priority areas. In it, based on the scientific direction of the digital economy, the conclusions and proposals on current problems of civil law are justified.
Reinvesting In Rico With Cryptocurrencies: Using Cryptocurrency Networks To Prove Rico’S Enterprise Requirement, Andrew Robert Klimek
Reinvesting In Rico With Cryptocurrencies: Using Cryptocurrency Networks To Prove Rico’S Enterprise Requirement, Andrew Robert Klimek
Washington and Lee Law Review
This Note received the 2019 Roy L. Steinheimer Law Review Award.
This Note argues that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) may be suited to cryptocurrency prosecutions. RICO subsection 1962(a) addresses the infiltration of an enterprise by investing proceeds from racketeering activities and this Note contends that a cryptocurrency network could serve as the “enterprise” required by the statute. Instead of having to investigate and prove the relationships in an underlying criminal enterprise, proponents of a RICO case against crypto-criminals could rely on well-documented and publicly available information about the cryptocurrency network to prove the enterprise and the …
Cryptocommunity Currencies, J. S. Nelson
Cryptocommunity Currencies, J. S. Nelson
Cornell Law Review
What are cryptocurrencies: securities, commodities, or something else? Maybe they are a new form of established currency-a non-sovereign fiat currency. Like other self-governing bodies, the communities that issue cryptocurrencies should be judged on how well they support their currencies. This analysis is not meaningfully different from how we have evaluated traditional sovereign issuers of currency. Indeed, as traditional-sovereign-issued currency becomes entirely digital, functional distinctions between traditionally sovereign-backed flat currency and widely accepted non-sovereign fat currency start to disappear. The primary way then to distinguish the value of such currencies from each other becomes the quality of their institutional backing. Through …
Taxing Bitcoin And Blockchains—What The Irs Told Us (And What It Didn’T), David J. Shakow
Taxing Bitcoin And Blockchains—What The Irs Told Us (And What It Didn’T), David J. Shakow
All Faculty Scholarship
The IRS recently issued its second description of how it will treat Bitcoin and other blockchain assets. Some of its analysis leaves open questions that invite further consideration, and important issues remain unresolved. Moreover, because the popular Bitcoin blockchain uses a "proof of work" consensus procedure, issues relating to the alternative "proof of stake" procedure have been neglected.
Blockchains And The Ethical Considerations Of Centralization, Michele Benedetto Neitz
Blockchains And The Ethical Considerations Of Centralization, Michele Benedetto Neitz
Publications
Blockchain technology’s promise is extraordinary—a truly decentralized and immutable ledger that could impact everything from cryptocurrencies and health care to supply chain management and civic voting. But a close examination of both permissioned and permissionless blockchains reveals that blockchain technology is actually moving in the direction of centralization, with small groups of people influencing decisions that affect entire blockchains. This emerging reality has profound ethical ramifications for the governance of blockchains.
Pay Toll With Coins: Looking Back On Fbar Penalties And Prosecutions To Inform The Future Of Cryptocurrency Taxation, Caroline T. Parnass
Pay Toll With Coins: Looking Back On Fbar Penalties And Prosecutions To Inform The Future Of Cryptocurrency Taxation, Caroline T. Parnass
Georgia Law Review
Cryptocurrencies are gaining a foothold in the global
economy, and the government wants its cut. However, few
people are reporting cryptocurrency transactions on their tax
returns. How will the IRS solve its cryptocurrency
noncompliance problem? Its response so far bears many
similarities to the government’s campaign to increase Reports
of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBARs). FBAR
noncompliance penalties are notoriously harsh, and the
government has pursued them vigorously. This Note explores
the connections and differences between cryptocurrency
reporting and foreign bank account reporting in an effort to
predict the future regime of cryptocurrency tax compliance.
Ico Vs. Ipo: Empirical Findings, Information Asymmetry, And The Appropriate Regulatory Framework, Moran Ofir, Ido Sadeh
Ico Vs. Ipo: Empirical Findings, Information Asymmetry, And The Appropriate Regulatory Framework, Moran Ofir, Ido Sadeh
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are a new form of fundraising whereby blockchain-related ventures raise public capital in exchange for newly issued digital tokens. In recent years, ICOs have been a prominent focus of legal and economic studies, which analyze their characteristics and determinants of their success. In this Article, we systematically review these studies and identify key ICO success factors. We then offer theoretical explanations for our findings, and in certain cases, connect the empirical results with the IPO and crowdfunding literatures. The results of our analysis are important for two reasons. First, there is no single formal data source, …
Cryptocurrency Meets Bankruptcy Law: A Call For Creditor Status For Investors In Initial Coin Offerings, Miriam Albert, J. Scott Colesanti
Cryptocurrency Meets Bankruptcy Law: A Call For Creditor Status For Investors In Initial Coin Offerings, Miriam Albert, J. Scott Colesanti
Georgia State University Law Review
In 1973, experts Homer Kripke and John J. Slain published a
seminal study titled The Interface Between Securities Regulation and
Bankruptcy—Allocating the Risk of Illegal Securities Issuance
between Securityholders and the Issuer’s Creditors. That lengthy
analysis, contributed by, respectively, a former Securities and
Exchange Commission official and a professor of law, examined the
status quo and concluded that investors were receiving unfair priority
vis-à-vis creditors in bankruptcy proceedings administered under the
federal Bankruptcy Code. Focusing on the traditional “absolute
priority rule,” the study pointed out that the Securities and Exchange
Commission support for the investor priority was unfounded and
urged …
The Very Brief History Of Decentralized Blockchain Governance, Michael Abramowicz
The Very Brief History Of Decentralized Blockchain Governance, Michael Abramowicz
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
A new form of blockchain governance involving the use of formal games that incentivize participants to identify focal resolutions to normative questions is emerging. This symposium contribution provides a brief survey of the literature proposing and critiquing the use of such mechanisms of decentralized decision-making, and it evaluates early laboratory and real-world experiments with this approach.
The Regulation Of Cryptocurrencies: Between A Currency And A Financial Product, Hadar Y. Jabotinsky Dr.
The Regulation Of Cryptocurrencies: Between A Currency And A Financial Product, Hadar Y. Jabotinsky Dr.
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Cryptocurrencies are electronically generated and stored currencies by which users can trade either real or virtual objects with one another. As these digital assets gain popularity, the issue of how to regulate them becomes more pressing. Cryptocurrencies are attractive due in part to their decentralized, peer-to-peer structure. This makes them an alternative to national currencies which are controlled by central banks. Given that these cryptocurrencies are already replacing some of the “regular” national currencies and financial products, the question then arises—should they be regulated? And if so, how? This paper draws the legal distinction between cryptocurrencies which are in fact …
Do Blockchain Technologies Make Us Safer? Do Cryptocurrencies Necessarily Make Us Less Safe?, Sarah Jane Hughes
Do Blockchain Technologies Make Us Safer? Do Cryptocurrencies Necessarily Make Us Less Safe?, Sarah Jane Hughes
Articles by Maurer Faculty
This essay is based on a presentation made on January 24, 2020 at the invitation of the Texas Journal of International Law and the Strauss Center for National Security at the University of Texas. That presentation focused on the two questions mentioned in the title of this essay – Do Blockchain Technologies Make Us Safer? And Do Cryptocurrencies Necessarily Make Us Less Safe? The essay presents answers to the two questions: “yes” and “probably yes.” This essay begins with some level-setting on different types of blockchain technologies and of cryptocurrencies, and gives some background materials on global and national responses …