The Technology Advisory Committee heard a briefing on DeFi’s functionality, as well as the pros and cons of holding programmers legally liable for bad usage. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is trying to make heads or tails of the recent explosion in decentralized finance. On Monday, the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee hosted a presentation called […]
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Government lawyers implied that citizens could legally pass along nuclear secrets to North Korea if held to the same standards as Griffith. Lawyers representing the United States government have filed a legal memo opposing the dismissal of charges for Virgil Griffith, a former Ethereum Foundation researcher accused of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against the […]
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Griffith argues that because his April 2019 conference presentation consisted of widely-available public information, he was not providing a “service” to North Korean officials Virgil Griffith, the former Ethereum Foundation researcher accused of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, filed a motion on Thursday to dismiss the charge against […]
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The US’s top legal authority is looking to dismantle online protections for content publishers following Trump’s spat with Twitter weeks ago. On June 17, the United States Department of Justice issued new recommendations to roll back decades-old protections for online platforms publishing third-party content. Section 230 and internet censorship Section 230 of the Communications Decency […]
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U.S. President Trump’s new executive order touches on media censorship, something crypto YouTubers know all too well. Those in the know expect President Trump to sign a fresh executive order today, imposing greater accountability on social media providers. The order draft, labeled at press time as “Preventing Online Censorship,” brings further clarity to social media industry […]
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Janet Jackson’s ex-husband, the Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana, is suing Facebook after a crypto scam used his image to promote itself in the Middle East without his permission. Janet Jackson’s ex-husband, the Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana, is suing Facebook after a crypto scam used his image to promote itself in the Middle East […]
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Here is why Libra is not ready to launch a cryptocurrency yet and why lawmakers find it hard to separate Facebook from the association. Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned to Capitol Hill to testify before Congress on Oct. 23 about the company’s planned use of the cryptocurrency it is backing, Libra, attempting to debunk the […]
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Bitcoin loses support for five figures, Craig Wright ordered to pay 500,000 BTC, and China’s digital currency may be further away than first thought. Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and […]
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Experts in law, blockchain technology and crypto take on the question: Could the U.S.’s First Amendment regulate the legality of Bitcoin as free speech? There is a concept that exists in the crypto space that effectively states: Bitcoin (BTC) is code, code is speech and speech is protected under United States law. We asked legal […]
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The success of Tezos’ self-amendment process and other recent events stress the relevance of the topic of governance in the crypto community. On May 30, Tezos implemented the amendment Athens A, as the result of a voting process that involved its baker nodes (the Tezos equivalent of “miners”) from Feb. 28 to May 30. Although […]
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