We are thrilled to reveal that @NickCurley7 will be speaking at the Texas Blockchain Summit this year.
Join us in Fort Worth, TX, from November 15th to 17th.
Secure your spot for the Summit here: https://t.co/WWy2g1pDuW
Looking forward to having you there!
Join us for Episode 4 of “Understanding the WSBA Crypto Industry Principles” on Thurs Aug 10 at 2 pm Eastern. In this session, we address “Custody & Segregation of Assets” with @ckayakr@NickCurley7 and @ronqman#Crypto#Principles#Custody
https://t.co/GCBMEgDASg
1/ Texas Governor Abbott has signed landmark legislation to ensure that digital asset service providers with Texas customers maintain adequate reserves and do not commingle customer funds with corporate assets. A🧵about the new law (and on commingling of customer funds generally).
Very helpful legal research guide from University of Arizona @uarizona law library testing ChatGPT (3.5 and 4), Bing, and Bard on legal research questions. Grades range from F- to A+ for more see https://t.co/vBXH9th9pT
Investment Insights Blog: SEC Probes into Advisers' Compliance with the Custody Rule for Digital Assets. Read here: https://t.co/LqnMTjXEFh
#digitalassets#compliance#investments
In the year 1900, when the automobile was 14 years old, horse and carriage dominated the streets. That changed soon after. Today, bitcoin is 14 years old.
Fresh off the press: "Employed Algorithms"! Corps use algos like employees. So crim and tort law should treat algos like employees by holding corps liable when algos break the law. Many thanks to @DukeLawJournal editors for a superlative experience. https://t.co/5pr6iUIuoW
Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
https://t.co/AKEweYZfj2
Big thanks to @balajis and staff from @coinbase@binance@krakenfx for discussion!
The damage to the industry’s reputation is significant. Proof of reserves will be mandatory moving forward. The pace of self custody education must increase 10 fold. Things were hard before but now even harder… time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.
I am so thrilled to announce that the SMU Science and Technology Law Review published my Case Note on United States v. Van Buren. We should push for modernized approaches to technology’s legal issues! https://t.co/znFDCXkoFC
LBRY judge: mixing consumptive and investment uses cannot be a loophole to the securities laws
this is what I predicted would be key factor for the judge
many lawyers made way too much of Forman case--there, consumptive intent was nearly *exclusive*
https://t.co/UJtcZdmJtY
Core Scientific, one of the world’s largest miners of Bitcoin, warned that it may run out of cash by the end of the year and could seek bankruptcy relief https://t.co/CFgmsNfAMa
if you're a crypto lawyer and you cite only to the westlaw version of a case, may i suggest these non-gated alternatives for your links:
- CaseText
- CourtListener
- Google Scholar
- Caselaw Access Project
Decentralize. The. Law. ❤️🔥