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Law and Blockchain : A Legal Perspective on Current Regulatory Trends Worldwide

Blemus, Stéphane - 2018

This paper expounds the latest main regulatory projects and industry-wide consultations in the United States (US), in the European Union (EU) and in the main economic countries where distributed ledgers (thereafter, “Blockchain”) regulations have been discussed, proposed and/or adopted. In...

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Distributed Ledger Technology and the Future of Payment Services

Karaindrou, Elli - 2018

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Trust, Anarcho-Capitalism, Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings

Flood, John - 2018

Blockchain - distributed ledger technology - is seen as heralding what some call the internet of trust because it … blockchain community has developed distributed ledger technology these basic philosophical tensions have surfaced causing …

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Blockchain and the Future of Optimal Financing Contracts

Tinn, Katrin - 2018

Blockchain technology makes it possible to create immutable smart contracts that are based on reliable and timestamped records of transactions. These new features imply that contracts for raising external financing could now depend on when, and not just on whether, positive cash flows occur....

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Blockchain-Based Token Sales, Initial Coin Offerings, and the Democratization of Public Capital Markets

Rohr, Jonathan - 2018

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Can Blockchain Improve Healthcare Management? Consumer Medical Electronics and the IoMT

Pilkington, Marc - 2018

We set out to examine the relevance of blockchain technology for healthcare management in general, and for consumer medical electronics and the portable devices connected in particular. After considering the shortcomings of private and centralized organizations for access to patient data in a...

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The Distributed Liability of Distributed Ledgers : Legal Risks of Blockchain

Zetzsche, Dirk A. - 2018

The transformative potential of distributed ledger technology, especially in the financial sector, is attracting … pilot applications of DLT technology. Part of the attraction of distributed ledger systems, such as Blockchain, lies in …

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Blockchain, Securities Markets and Central Banking

Seretakis, Alexandros L. - 2018

Distributed ledger technology, a variant of which is blockchain technology, represents one of the most important … widespread adoption of distributed ledger technology as envisioned by its ardent supporters encounters considerable legal … financial crisis. The present paper will seek to disentangle the myths from the realities of the so-called distributed ledger …

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Taxonomy of Blockchain Technologies. Principles of Identification and Classification

Tasca, Paolo - 2018

A comparative study across the most widely known blockchain technologies is conducted with a bottom-up approach. Blockchains are disentangled into building blocks. Each building block is then hierarchically classified in main and subcomponents. Then, alternative layouts for the subcomponents are...

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Developing Renewable Energy Credits as Cryptocurrency on Ethereum's Blockchain

Leonhard, Robert - 2018

The blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize the legal and financial industries. With the development of Ethereum, blockchain technology can be inexpensively implemented as an efficient way to create, transfer, and authenticate Renewable Energy Credits in order to avoid waste,...

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