This link opens in a new window
This link opens in a new window"A blockchain is a distributed database that is used to maintain a continuously growing list of records, called blocks. Each block contains a link to a previous block and a time stamp. Blockchain initially enabled the creation of Bitcoin and other digital cryptocurrencies, and it has become the basis for technological developments affecting industries in many sectors, legal and regulatory systems, and government institutions and services." In Focus: Blockchain Bloomberg Law
Blockchain for Law Students is a comprehensive website created especially for law students on a variety of Blockchain resources. Authored by Prof. Walter Effross of the American University Washington College of Law, the website provides access to caselaw, journal articles, congressional documents, books and treatises, and other relevant material.
Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
Since Bitcoin appeared in 2009, the digital currency has been hailed as an Internet marvel and decried as the preferred transaction vehicle for all manner of criminals. It has left nearly everyone without a computer science degree confused: Just how do you "mine" money from ones and zeros? The answer lies in a technology called blockchain, which can be used for much more than Bitcoin. A general-purpose tool for creating secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer applications, blockchain technology has been compared to the Internet itself in both form and impact. Some have said this tool may change society as we know it. Blockchains are being used to create autonomous computer programs known as "smart contracts," to expedite payments, to create financial instruments, to organize the exchange of data and information, and to facilitate interactions between humans and machines. Blockchain and the Law explores the benefits and drawbacks of this emerging decentralized technology and argues that its widespread deployment will lead to expansion of what we term lex cryptographia: rules administered through self-executing smart contracts.
