Topic
Digital Currency
4,990 published works
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Bitcoin Company Shutdown for Failing to Deliver Bitcoin Mining Computers
By Peter Vogel
Based on the FTC’s request, a judge enjoined Butterfly Labs from marketing “BitForce” which were “specialized computers designed to produce Bitcoins, a payment system sometimes referred to as “virtual currency.””…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Rethinking Virtual Currency Regulation in the Bitcoin Age
Washington Law Review, Forthcoming KEVIN V. TU, University of New Mexico School of Law MICHAEL W. MEREDITH, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas This Article investigates an increasingly important…
Virtual Currency Report
CFTC Committee to Consider Clearing of Non-Deliverable Forwards and Jurisdiction Over Bitcoin Derivatives at October 9th Meeting
By Perkins Coie
Perkins Coie Partner Andrew Cross has posted an article of interest on the Derivatives & Repo Report regarding the agenda of the upcoming Global Markets Advisory Committee meeting on October…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Trendon Shavers, “Pirateat40”, Bitcoin Ponzi Schemer Ordered to Pay More Than $40 Million in Disgorgement and Penalties
Trendon T. Shavers and Bitcoin Savings and Trust ("BTCST"), the online entity Shavers created and used to operate his Ponzi scheme - he defrauded investors out of more than 700,000…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Yahoo Criticizes Digital Asset Legislation
Many questions arise when it comes to addressing what should come of our personal digital communications after we die? Should they be treated like physical letters for the purposes of…
Derivatives & Repo Report
Swap Execution Facility to Trade Bitcoin Swaps
By Perkins Coie
TeraExchange, LLC (TeraExchange), a swap execution facility (“SEF”) registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), has announced it will begin trading a non-deliverable forward based upon the U.S. Dollar…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Bank of England Concerned over Bitcoin
By David Herzig
According to the Times, "Digital currencies such as bitcoin could threaten the economy if they became widespread, the Bank of England has warned. In the most extreme case, bitcoin’s decentralised payment…
Securities Law Prof Blog
New in Print
The following law review articles relating to securities regulation are now available in paper format:Todd Barnet, The Door Is Still Ajar: Analysis and Shortcomings of the CFTC's Final Rule on…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
weekend articles: Bitcoins Myths & Facts; Offshore Operations & Additional Cost for Bank Loans
Bitcoin Myths and Facts CAMPBELL R. HARVEY, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) I will address eight common claims about bitcoin: 1. Physical bitcoins…
The Right Coast
Creators of New Fed-Proof Bitcoin Marketplace Swear It s Not for Drugs | Threat Level | WIRED
When the recording industry smashed Napster with a $20 billion lawsuit more than a decade ago, filesharing morphed into Bittorrent, a fully peer-to-peer system with no central server for law…