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THE PROBLEM WITH CALLING BITCOIN A “PONZI SCHEMESEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative. IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIESSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
WHAT SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT So far as the ordinary person is concerned, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act essentially says two things: Online publishing platforms – personal websites, newspapers’ websites, e-mail list-servs, whatever – and their users are not legally liable for content they do not create. If a web app moderates any of yourcontent off of
STABLECOINS ARE DOOMED TO FAIL, PART II: MAKERDAO’S “DAI Background. This is a follow-up from an earlier post, “Stablecoins are doomed to fail,” from December 10th.I’ll keep this one short. Long have I been a critic of the “stablecoin” concept – the techno-magical idea that a cryptocurrency can tell the market what its price should be, rather than the market determining what a cryptocurrency’s price should be (the usual way these PRESTON BYRNELEGAL NOTICEMEDIATHE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. ICOS – PRESTON BYRNE Newcoin, Inc. was renamed to “Opencoin, Inc.” in October, 2012. OpenCoin Inc. was later re-named to “Ripple Labs, Inc.” in 2013. California-incorporated Ripple Labs, Inc. was then merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary, a Delaware corporation also called “Ripple Labs, Inc.,” in 2014. This is the Ripple Labs we all know and lovetoday.
THE PROBLEM WITH CALLING BITCOIN A “PONZI SCHEMESEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative. IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIESSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
WHAT SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT So far as the ordinary person is concerned, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act essentially says two things: Online publishing platforms – personal websites, newspapers’ websites, e-mail list-servs, whatever – and their users are not legally liable for content they do not create. If a web app moderates any of yourcontent off of
STABLECOINS ARE DOOMED TO FAIL, PART II: MAKERDAO’S “DAI Background. This is a follow-up from an earlier post, “Stablecoins are doomed to fail,” from December 10th.I’ll keep this one short. Long have I been a critic of the “stablecoin” concept – the techno-magical idea that a cryptocurrency can tell the market what its price should be, rather than the market determining what a cryptocurrency’s price should be (the usual way these MEDIA – PRESTON BYRNE Pomp Podcast #265 with Anthony Pompliano, 12 April 2020 – Preston Byrne on Constitutional Rights During the Quarantine. Guns n’ Bitcoin with Ragnar Lifthrasir, 19 December 2019 – on the Financial Censorship Trinity. What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack, 6 September 2019 – on Regulating Libra. The Bitcoin Law Review with Tone Vays,20
YOU REALLY SHOULDN’T RECORD CLUBHOUSE CALLS Somewhat distressingly, this is the second blog post I've written on a legal topic following a call for same from the inimitable Balaji Srinivasan. It's not legal advice. See disclaimer. My last post was on the topic of how to introduce anti-cancellation language into an employment agreement. This blog post will be on the subjectA DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. NOT LEGAL ADVICE, 11 MARCH 2020 Put another way, the venture investors can afford to lose a little money. Your employees can’t afford to get sick. Now, not next week, not tomorrow, but today, is the time to write up and plan to implement policies around halting staff travel, staggered off-peak commuting, modified paid sick leave and disability cover, and working from home. FOR THE LAST TIME, RIPPLE LABS CREATED XRP For the last time, Ripple Labs created XRP. Posted on September 20, 2018. February 28, 2020. by prestonbyrne. There has been a meme propagated in recent months by the folks over at Ripple Labs. That meme is that the cryptocurrency token known as “Ripple” or “XRP” has absolutely nothing to do with Ripple Labs the company,that XRP pre
NIRP IS GOING TO RUIN EVERYTHING NIRP is very possibly laying the groundwork for a massive debt crisis which will be as obvious to our children, in hindsight, as the subprime bubble seems to us. “Well of COURSE people shouldn’t have overstated their income and taken out ARMs they couldn’t afford.”. THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO Cryptocurrency is a criminal liability minefield. Yet, for whatever reason, nobody seems to care. Which brings me to the bear case for crypto. They say when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail, so it is perhaps understandable that my reasons for being a bear are legal in nature. Here goes: ON THE LOOMING BITCOIN BUBBLE On the looming Bitcoin bubble. I haven’t made any predictions for awhile (seeing as my Bear Case for Crypto is playing out more or less exactly as described), but I will sound a warning today. Dramatic run-ups in the price of Bitcoin strangely seem to coincide with large exchanges having banking, withdrawal, and possibly solvency problems BITSHARES: DON’T WALK AWAY. RUN BitShares - which I'd thought for the longest time was vapourware, but which inexplicably has been developed and even had the cojones to launch a $5 million Bitcoin IPO - was brought back into frame today with the news that they're having a chat with a certain other "2.0" ledger about collaborating. For those of you who don't know FACEBOOK’S NEW 10-DIGIT SECURITY HOLE In so doing, Facebook has just created a massive security hole which exposes every single one of its users to life-alteringly shitty hacks. I’m frankly astonished nobody internally at that company thought about this before pushing this feature. PRESTON BYRNELEGAL NOTICEMEDIATHE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. ICOS – PRESTON BYRNE Newcoin, Inc. was renamed to “Opencoin, Inc.” in October, 2012. OpenCoin Inc. was later re-named to “Ripple Labs, Inc.” in 2013. California-incorporated Ripple Labs, Inc. was then merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary, a Delaware corporation also called “Ripple Labs, Inc.,” in 2014. This is the Ripple Labs we all know and lovetoday.
AFTER THE STABLE ACT, COIN CENTER’S BLOCKCHAIN NODE SAFE After the STABLE Act, Coin Center’s blockchain node safe harbor is worth revisiting. Posted on December 4, 2020. December 5, 2020. by prestonbyrne. Yesterday, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib sent cryptotwitter into a tizzy with the following proposal: Preventing cryptocurrency providers from repeating the crimes againstlow
THE PROBLEM WITH CALLING BITCOIN A “PONZI SCHEMESEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative. IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIESSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART II: THE GREAT BANK RUNSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
PRESTON BYRNELEGAL NOTICEMEDIATHE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. ICOS – PRESTON BYRNE Newcoin, Inc. was renamed to “Opencoin, Inc.” in October, 2012. OpenCoin Inc. was later re-named to “Ripple Labs, Inc.” in 2013. California-incorporated Ripple Labs, Inc. was then merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary, a Delaware corporation also called “Ripple Labs, Inc.,” in 2014. This is the Ripple Labs we all know and lovetoday.
AFTER THE STABLE ACT, COIN CENTER’S BLOCKCHAIN NODE SAFE After the STABLE Act, Coin Center’s blockchain node safe harbor is worth revisiting. Posted on December 4, 2020. December 5, 2020. by prestonbyrne. Yesterday, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib sent cryptotwitter into a tizzy with the following proposal: Preventing cryptocurrency providers from repeating the crimes againstlow
THE PROBLEM WITH CALLING BITCOIN A “PONZI SCHEMESEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative. IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIESSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART II: THE GREAT BANK RUNSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
MEDIA – PRESTON BYRNE Pomp Podcast #265 with Anthony Pompliano, 12 April 2020 – Preston Byrne on Constitutional Rights During the Quarantine. Guns n’ Bitcoin with Ragnar Lifthrasir, 19 December 2019 – on the Financial Censorship Trinity. What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack, 6 September 2019 – on Regulating Libra. The Bitcoin Law Review with Tone Vays,20
THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. YOU REALLY SHOULDN’T RECORD CLUBHOUSE CALLS Somewhat distressingly, this is the second blog post I've written on a legal topic following a call for same from the inimitable Balaji Srinivasan. It's not legal advice. See disclaimer. My last post was on the topic of how to introduce anti-cancellation language into an employment agreement. This blog post will be on the subject NIRP IS GOING TO RUIN EVERYTHING NIRP is very possibly laying the groundwork for a massive debt crisis which will be as obvious to our children, in hindsight, as the subprime bubble seems to us. “Well of COURSE people shouldn’t have overstated their income and taken out ARMs they couldn’t afford.”. HELP! THE GOVERNMENT’S AT THE DOOR AND THEY’RE ASKING ME 2) Even though it’s (probably) not about you, don’t talk to the government without the assistance of counsel. Your lawyers should be doing the talking if any talking is to happen at all. If you really feel the need to talk with the government about the data request, go talk to your lawyers, and we will talk with the government. We dealwith
THOUGHTS ON THE SAFT I wrote a follow-up to this blog post on 4 October 2017. If of interest, link: Thoughts on the Saft Part II: SAFT Harder This week in Initial Coin Offering (“ICO”) land brings us the first publicly-acknowledged SAFT offering, of Protocol Labs’ Filecoin.For those of you not familiar with the SAFT, or “Simple Agreement for Future Tokens,” this is an option agreement modelled after WHAT SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT So far as the ordinary person is concerned, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act essentially says two things: Online publishing platforms – personal websites, newspapers’ websites, e-mail list-servs, whatever – and their users are not legally liable for content they do not create. THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO Cryptocurrency is a criminal liability minefield. Yet, for whatever reason, nobody seems to care. Which brings me to the bear case for crypto. They say when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail, so it is perhaps understandable that my reasons for being a bear are legal in nature. Here goes: THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART III: I AM BECOME GRANDMA This is the latest installment in my series of posts about ICO Mania. In a blog post from Sunday, I put forward a proposition about how cryptocurrency, or more appropriately cryptocurrency shills and entrepreneurs (the software will be fine), will meet their doom on account of little old ladies.I wrote: The introduction of millions of ordinary retail investors to the market (300,000 last weekLIVE FREE OR DAICO
The basic idea behind this new crypto hustle is that ICO investors can prevent their dev teams from absconding with investor funds, or withdrawing too much funding too quickly, by locking up the Ether they give to these developer teams in a smart contract, and granting theinvestors a
PRESTON BYRNELEGAL NOTICEMEDIATHE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. ICOS – PRESTON BYRNE Newcoin, Inc. was renamed to “Opencoin, Inc.” in October, 2012. OpenCoin Inc. was later re-named to “Ripple Labs, Inc.” in 2013. California-incorporated Ripple Labs, Inc. was then merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary, a Delaware corporation also called “Ripple Labs, Inc.,” in 2014. This is the Ripple Labs we all know and lovetoday.
AFTER THE STABLE ACT, COIN CENTER’S BLOCKCHAIN NODE SAFE After the STABLE Act, Coin Center’s blockchain node safe harbor is worth revisiting. Posted on December 4, 2020. December 5, 2020. by prestonbyrne. Yesterday, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib sent cryptotwitter into a tizzy with the following proposal: Preventing cryptocurrency providers from repeating the crimes againstlow
THE PROBLEM WITH CALLING BITCOIN A “PONZI SCHEMESEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative. IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIESSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART II: THE GREAT BANK RUNSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
PRESTON BYRNELEGAL NOTICEMEDIATHE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. ICOS – PRESTON BYRNE Newcoin, Inc. was renamed to “Opencoin, Inc.” in October, 2012. OpenCoin Inc. was later re-named to “Ripple Labs, Inc.” in 2013. California-incorporated Ripple Labs, Inc. was then merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary, a Delaware corporation also called “Ripple Labs, Inc.,” in 2014. This is the Ripple Labs we all know and lovetoday.
AFTER THE STABLE ACT, COIN CENTER’S BLOCKCHAIN NODE SAFE After the STABLE Act, Coin Center’s blockchain node safe harbor is worth revisiting. Posted on December 4, 2020. December 5, 2020. by prestonbyrne. Yesterday, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib sent cryptotwitter into a tizzy with the following proposal: Preventing cryptocurrency providers from repeating the crimes againstlow
THE PROBLEM WITH CALLING BITCOIN A “PONZI SCHEMESEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative. IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIESSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART II: THE GREAT BANK RUNSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
MEDIA – PRESTON BYRNE Pomp Podcast #265 with Anthony Pompliano, 12 April 2020 – Preston Byrne on Constitutional Rights During the Quarantine. Guns n’ Bitcoin with Ragnar Lifthrasir, 19 December 2019 – on the Financial Censorship Trinity. What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack, 6 September 2019 – on Regulating Libra. The Bitcoin Law Review with Tone Vays,20
THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. YOU REALLY SHOULDN’T RECORD CLUBHOUSE CALLS Somewhat distressingly, this is the second blog post I've written on a legal topic following a call for same from the inimitable Balaji Srinivasan. It's not legal advice. See disclaimer. My last post was on the topic of how to introduce anti-cancellation language into an employment agreement. This blog post will be on the subject NIRP IS GOING TO RUIN EVERYTHING NIRP is very possibly laying the groundwork for a massive debt crisis which will be as obvious to our children, in hindsight, as the subprime bubble seems to us. “Well of COURSE people shouldn’t have overstated their income and taken out ARMs they couldn’t afford.”. HELP! THE GOVERNMENT’S AT THE DOOR AND THEY’RE ASKING ME 2) Even though it’s (probably) not about you, don’t talk to the government without the assistance of counsel. Your lawyers should be doing the talking if any talking is to happen at all. If you really feel the need to talk with the government about the data request, go talk to your lawyers, and we will talk with the government. We dealwith
THOUGHTS ON THE SAFT I wrote a follow-up to this blog post on 4 October 2017. If of interest, link: Thoughts on the Saft Part II: SAFT Harder This week in Initial Coin Offering (“ICO”) land brings us the first publicly-acknowledged SAFT offering, of Protocol Labs’ Filecoin.For those of you not familiar with the SAFT, or “Simple Agreement for Future Tokens,” this is an option agreement modelled after WHAT SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT So far as the ordinary person is concerned, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act essentially says two things: Online publishing platforms – personal websites, newspapers’ websites, e-mail list-servs, whatever – and their users are not legally liable for content they do not create. THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO Cryptocurrency is a criminal liability minefield. Yet, for whatever reason, nobody seems to care. Which brings me to the bear case for crypto. They say when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail, so it is perhaps understandable that my reasons for being a bear are legal in nature. Here goes: THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART III: I AM BECOME GRANDMA This is the latest installment in my series of posts about ICO Mania. In a blog post from Sunday, I put forward a proposition about how cryptocurrency, or more appropriately cryptocurrency shills and entrepreneurs (the software will be fine), will meet their doom on account of little old ladies.I wrote: The introduction of millions of ordinary retail investors to the market (300,000 last weekLIVE FREE OR DAICO
The basic idea behind this new crypto hustle is that ICO investors can prevent their dev teams from absconding with investor funds, or withdrawing too much funding too quickly, by locking up the Ether they give to these developer teams in a smart contract, and granting theinvestors a
PRESTON BYRNELEGAL NOTICEMEDIATHE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. ICOS – PRESTON BYRNE Newcoin, Inc. was renamed to “Opencoin, Inc.” in October, 2012. OpenCoin Inc. was later re-named to “Ripple Labs, Inc.” in 2013. California-incorporated Ripple Labs, Inc. was then merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary, a Delaware corporation also called “Ripple Labs, Inc.,” in 2014. This is the Ripple Labs we all know and lovetoday.
AFTER THE STABLE ACT, COIN CENTER’S BLOCKCHAIN NODE SAFE After the STABLE Act, Coin Center’s blockchain node safe harbor is worth revisiting. Posted on December 4, 2020. December 5, 2020. by prestonbyrne. Yesterday, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib sent cryptotwitter into a tizzy with the following proposal: Preventing cryptocurrency providers from repeating the crimes againstlow
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ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative. IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIESSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART II: THE GREAT BANK RUNSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
PRESTON BYRNELEGAL NOTICEMEDIATHE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. ICOS – PRESTON BYRNE Newcoin, Inc. was renamed to “Opencoin, Inc.” in October, 2012. OpenCoin Inc. was later re-named to “Ripple Labs, Inc.” in 2013. California-incorporated Ripple Labs, Inc. was then merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary, a Delaware corporation also called “Ripple Labs, Inc.,” in 2014. This is the Ripple Labs we all know and lovetoday.
AFTER THE STABLE ACT, COIN CENTER’S BLOCKCHAIN NODE SAFE After the STABLE Act, Coin Center’s blockchain node safe harbor is worth revisiting. Posted on December 4, 2020. December 5, 2020. by prestonbyrne. Yesterday, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib sent cryptotwitter into a tizzy with the following proposal: Preventing cryptocurrency providers from repeating the crimes againstlow
THE PROBLEM WITH CALLING BITCOIN A “PONZI SCHEMESEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative. IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIESSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART II: THE GREAT BANK RUNSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
MEDIA – PRESTON BYRNE Pomp Podcast #265 with Anthony Pompliano, 12 April 2020 – Preston Byrne on Constitutional Rights During the Quarantine. Guns n’ Bitcoin with Ragnar Lifthrasir, 19 December 2019 – on the Financial Censorship Trinity. What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack, 6 September 2019 – on Regulating Libra. The Bitcoin Law Review with Tone Vays,20
THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. YOU REALLY SHOULDN’T RECORD CLUBHOUSE CALLS Somewhat distressingly, this is the second blog post I've written on a legal topic following a call for same from the inimitable Balaji Srinivasan. It's not legal advice. See disclaimer. My last post was on the topic of how to introduce anti-cancellation language into an employment agreement. This blog post will be on the subject NIRP IS GOING TO RUIN EVERYTHING NIRP is very possibly laying the groundwork for a massive debt crisis which will be as obvious to our children, in hindsight, as the subprime bubble seems to us. “Well of COURSE people shouldn’t have overstated their income and taken out ARMs they couldn’t afford.”. HELP! THE GOVERNMENT’S AT THE DOOR AND THEY’RE ASKING ME 2) Even though it’s (probably) not about you, don’t talk to the government without the assistance of counsel. Your lawyers should be doing the talking if any talking is to happen at all. If you really feel the need to talk with the government about the data request, go talk to your lawyers, and we will talk with the government. We dealwith
THOUGHTS ON THE SAFT I wrote a follow-up to this blog post on 4 October 2017. If of interest, link: Thoughts on the Saft Part II: SAFT Harder This week in Initial Coin Offering (“ICO”) land brings us the first publicly-acknowledged SAFT offering, of Protocol Labs’ Filecoin.For those of you not familiar with the SAFT, or “Simple Agreement for Future Tokens,” this is an option agreement modelled after WHAT SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT So far as the ordinary person is concerned, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act essentially says two things: Online publishing platforms – personal websites, newspapers’ websites, e-mail list-servs, whatever – and their users are not legally liable for content they do not create. THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO Cryptocurrency is a criminal liability minefield. Yet, for whatever reason, nobody seems to care. Which brings me to the bear case for crypto. They say when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail, so it is perhaps understandable that my reasons for being a bear are legal in nature. Here goes: THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART III: I AM BECOME GRANDMA This is the latest installment in my series of posts about ICO Mania. In a blog post from Sunday, I put forward a proposition about how cryptocurrency, or more appropriately cryptocurrency shills and entrepreneurs (the software will be fine), will meet their doom on account of little old ladies.I wrote: The introduction of millions of ordinary retail investors to the market (300,000 last weekLIVE FREE OR DAICO
The basic idea behind this new crypto hustle is that ICO investors can prevent their dev teams from absconding with investor funds, or withdrawing too much funding too quickly, by locking up the Ether they give to these developer teams in a smart contract, and granting theinvestors a
PRESTON BYRNELEGAL NOTICEMEDIATHE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. AFTER THE STABLE ACT, COIN CENTER’S BLOCKCHAIN NODE SAFE After the STABLE Act, Coin Center’s blockchain node safe harbor is worth revisiting. Posted on December 4, 2020. December 5, 2020. by prestonbyrne. Yesterday, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib sent cryptotwitter into a tizzy with the following proposal: Preventing cryptocurrency providers from repeating the crimes againstlow
ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative.A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. THE PROBLEM WITH CALLING BITCOIN A “PONZI SCHEMESEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
WHAT SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT So far as the ordinary person is concerned, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act essentially says two things: Online publishing platforms – personal websites, newspapers’ websites, e-mail list-servs, whatever – and their users are not legally liable for content they do not create. If a web app moderates any of yourcontent off of
THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO Cryptocurrency is a criminal liability minefield. Yet, for whatever reason, nobody seems to care. Which brings me to the bear case for crypto. They say when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail, so it is perhaps understandable that my reasons for being a bear are legal in nature. Here goes: A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIESSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
PRESTON BYRNELEGAL NOTICEMEDIATHE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. AFTER THE STABLE ACT, COIN CENTER’S BLOCKCHAIN NODE SAFE After the STABLE Act, Coin Center’s blockchain node safe harbor is worth revisiting. Posted on December 4, 2020. December 5, 2020. by prestonbyrne. Yesterday, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib sent cryptotwitter into a tizzy with the following proposal: Preventing cryptocurrency providers from repeating the crimes againstlow
ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative.A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. THE PROBLEM WITH CALLING BITCOIN A “PONZI SCHEMESEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
WHAT SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT So far as the ordinary person is concerned, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act essentially says two things: Online publishing platforms – personal websites, newspapers’ websites, e-mail list-servs, whatever – and their users are not legally liable for content they do not create. If a web app moderates any of yourcontent off of
THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO Cryptocurrency is a criminal liability minefield. Yet, for whatever reason, nobody seems to care. Which brings me to the bear case for crypto. They say when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail, so it is perhaps understandable that my reasons for being a bear are legal in nature. Here goes: A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIESSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
MEDIA – PRESTON BYRNE Pomp Podcast #265 with Anthony Pompliano, 12 April 2020 – Preston Byrne on Constitutional Rights During the Quarantine. Guns n’ Bitcoin with Ragnar Lifthrasir, 19 December 2019 – on the Financial Censorship Trinity. What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack, 6 September 2019 – on Regulating Libra. The Bitcoin Law Review with Tone Vays,20
THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. YOU REALLY SHOULDN’T RECORD CLUBHOUSE CALLS Somewhat distressingly, this is the second blog post I've written on a legal topic following a call for same from the inimitable Balaji Srinivasan. It's not legal advice. See disclaimer. My last post was on the topic of how to introduce anti-cancellation language into an employment agreement. This blog post will be on the subject THOUGHTS ON THE TRUMP DEPLATFORMING Thoughts on the Trump Deplatforming. Posted on January 8, 2021January 9, 2021 by prestonbyrne. See also: Open Access Publishing Platforms and Unlawful Threats, Republicans need to stop begging the government to protect them from internet censorship. Today Donald John Trump, the 45 th and current President of the United States, was banned from FOR THE LAST TIME, RIPPLE LABS CREATED XRP For the last time, Ripple Labs created XRP. Posted on September 20, 2018. February 28, 2020. by prestonbyrne. There has been a meme propagated in recent months by the folks over at Ripple Labs. That meme is that the cryptocurrency token known as “Ripple” or “XRP” has absolutely nothing to do with Ripple Labs the company,that XRP pre
NOT LEGAL ADVICE, 11 MARCH 2020 This isn’t the world’s first recession and it won’t be the last. It’s not the world’s first pandemic and it won’t be the last. The key for entrepreneurs is to keep a cool head about you, don’t do anything stupid (if you have never used firearms, for example, now isn’t the time to acquire one and start carrying it while wearing a gas mask on city streets), and adopt a war A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIES England is not a free country. When quoting Winston Churchill or the Bible verbatim on a street corner is enough to get you arrested and charged with a crime, it is not appropriate to speak of your freedoms being in danger from state encroachment. Your freedoms are gone. And if the UK can slide quite as far as it has, much of it taking place in BITSHARES: DON’T WALK AWAY. RUN BitShares - which I'd thought for the longest time was vapourware, but which inexplicably has been developed and even had the cojones to launch a $5 million Bitcoin IPO - was brought back into frame today with the news that they're having a chat with a certain other "2.0" ledger about collaborating. For those of you who don't know NOT LEGAL ADVICE 11/9/19 Welcome back to this week’s edition of Not Legal Advice! Once again, I’ve been remiss in typing up my weekly newsletter on a weekly basis due to travel – one of the downsides of solo practice is that one has no minions to dispatch to the far sides of the world – and this time, to San Francisco, where I did a panel with the inimitable Josh Stein of next-gen digital securities firm WILL THE UK-US DATA SHARING AGREEMENT *REALLY* NOT RESULT Adapted from this tweet thread. I will start this blog post by stating that, to be perfectly clear, there is nothing in the CLOUD Act that mandates forced decryption or could be construed to allow it. However, people who say that forced decryption of U.S. communications disclosed under the Cloud Act is impossible may be PRESTON BYRNELEGAL NOTICEMEDIATHE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. ICOS – PRESTON BYRNE Newcoin, Inc. was renamed to “Opencoin, Inc.” in October, 2012. OpenCoin Inc. was later re-named to “Ripple Labs, Inc.” in 2013. California-incorporated Ripple Labs, Inc. was then merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary, a Delaware corporation also called “Ripple Labs, Inc.,” in 2014. This is the Ripple Labs we all know and lovetoday.
ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative. AFTER THE STABLE ACT, COIN CENTER’S BLOCKCHAIN NODE SAFE After the STABLE Act, Coin Center’s blockchain node safe harbor is worth revisiting. Posted on December 4, 2020. December 5, 2020. by prestonbyrne. Yesterday, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib sent cryptotwitter into a tizzy with the following proposal: Preventing cryptocurrency providers from repeating the crimes againstlow
A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. WHAT SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACTEXPLAIN SECTION 230SECTION 230 C 2SECTION 230 EXPLAINEDSECTION 230 TEXTSECTION 230 WIKIFULL TEXT OF SECTION 230 So far as the ordinary person is concerned, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act essentially says two things: Online publishing platforms – personal websites, newspapers’ websites, e-mail list-servs, whatever – and their users are not legally liable for content they do not create. If a web app moderates any of yourcontent off of
THE PROBLEM WITH CALLING BITCOIN A “PONZI SCHEMESEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART II: THE GREAT BANK RUNSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
PRESTON BYRNELEGAL NOTICEMEDIATHE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Berwin Leighton Paisner (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE (A BLOG) Portland is a bad, high tension situation where good people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things and bad people might accidentally or intentionally do bad things, with or without the approval – express or tacit – of other people on their “side.”. All of this is capable of being true at the same time. ICOS – PRESTON BYRNE Newcoin, Inc. was renamed to “Opencoin, Inc.” in October, 2012. OpenCoin Inc. was later re-named to “Ripple Labs, Inc.” in 2013. California-incorporated Ripple Labs, Inc. was then merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary, a Delaware corporation also called “Ripple Labs, Inc.,” in 2014. This is the Ripple Labs we all know and lovetoday.
ETHEREUM IS (ARGUABLY) DOOMED TO BE CENTRALIZED Ethereum is (arguably) doomed to be centralized. I will preface this blog post by saying that my aim here is to set out and list some suggestive, not definitive, evidence I see of increased centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. It sets out a hunch, not a mathematical proof. If you disagree with my opinion, that’s your prerogative. AFTER THE STABLE ACT, COIN CENTER’S BLOCKCHAIN NODE SAFE After the STABLE Act, Coin Center’s blockchain node safe harbor is worth revisiting. Posted on December 4, 2020. December 5, 2020. by prestonbyrne. Yesterday, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib sent cryptotwitter into a tizzy with the following proposal: Preventing cryptocurrency providers from repeating the crimes againstlow
A DRUMLIN WOODCHUCK
A two-door burrow I dug. With those in mind at my back. I can sit forth exposed to attack. As one who shrewdly pretends. That he and the world are friends. All we who prefer to live. Have a little whistle we give, And flash, at the least alarm. We dive down under the farm. WHAT SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACTEXPLAIN SECTION 230SECTION 230 C 2SECTION 230 EXPLAINEDSECTION 230 TEXTSECTION 230 WIKIFULL TEXT OF SECTION 230 So far as the ordinary person is concerned, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act essentially says two things: Online publishing platforms – personal websites, newspapers’ websites, e-mail list-servs, whatever – and their users are not legally liable for content they do not create. If a web app moderates any of yourcontent off of
THE PROBLEM WITH CALLING BITCOIN A “PONZI SCHEMESEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
IN 50 YEARS, MOST SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WILL NOT EXIST In 50 years, most schools and universities will not exist. Posted on October 26, 2019. October 28, 2019. by prestonbyrne. The other day I put up a tweet. It was a deliberately provocative tweet, linking to this article in the Guardian, titled Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids, and I suggested that abetter
THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART II: THE GREAT BANK RUNSEE MORE ONPRESTONBYRNE.COM
MEDIA – PRESTON BYRNE Pomp Podcast #265 with Anthony Pompliano, 12 April 2020 – Preston Byrne on Constitutional Rights During the Quarantine. Guns n’ Bitcoin with Ragnar Lifthrasir, 19 December 2019 – on the Financial Censorship Trinity. What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack, 6 September 2019 – on Regulating Libra. The Bitcoin Law Review with Tone Vays,20
YOU REALLY SHOULDN’T RECORD CLUBHOUSE CALLS Somewhat distressingly, this is the second blog post I've written on a legal topic following a call for same from the inimitable Balaji Srinivasan. It's not legal advice. See disclaimer. My last post was on the topic of how to introduce anti-cancellation language into an employment agreement. This blog post will be on the subject FOR THE LAST TIME, RIPPLE LABS CREATED XRP For the last time, Ripple Labs created XRP. Posted on September 20, 2018. February 28, 2020. by prestonbyrne. There has been a meme propagated in recent months by the folks over at Ripple Labs. That meme is that the cryptocurrency token known as “Ripple” or “XRP” has absolutely nothing to do with Ripple Labs the company,that XRP pre
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THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO Cryptocurrency is a criminal liability minefield. Yet, for whatever reason, nobody seems to care. Which brings me to the bear case for crypto. They say when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail, so it is perhaps understandable that my reasons for being a bear are legal in nature. Here goes: AGAINST TOKENS: PART II This is adapted from a Reddit thread (shout out to my homeboys in /r/ethereum). It is a follow-on from an earlier piece, Against Tokens. Warning: this blog post is long. Today brings us a paper, written by Coin Center and Debevoise & Plimpton, and sponsored by Coinbase, USV, Coin Center and ConsenSys, which explores the question A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH CIVIL LIBERTIES England is not a free country. When quoting Winston Churchill or the Bible verbatim on a street corner is enough to get you arrested and charged with a crime, it is not appropriate to speak of your freedoms being in danger from state encroachment. Your freedoms are gone. And if the UK can slide quite as far as it has, much of it taking place in THE BEAR CASE FOR CRYPTO, PART III: I AM BECOME GRANDMA This is the latest installment in my series of posts about ICO Mania. In a blog post from Sunday, I put forward a proposition about how cryptocurrency, or more appropriately cryptocurrency shills and entrepreneurs (the software will be fine), will meet their doom on account of little old ladies.I wrote: The introduction of millions of ordinary retail investors to the market (300,000 last weekPRESTON BYRNE
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I’m a partner at Anderson Kill , where my practice focuses on early-stage technology companies with complex cross-border legal issues, including industrial cryptography, cryptocurrency and interactive computer services businesses. In my free time I’m a fellow of the ASI.
Previously, I was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Norton Rose Fulbright. After BigLaw I co-founded and was COO of early enterprise blockchain startup Monax and a partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C., a boutique technology law firm. Monax built the firstpermissioned
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_Disclaimer: though I write about legal things, I am not your lawyer and nothing on this blog constitutes legal advice, per the terms of the notice and disclaimer which may be found here . Copyright Preston Byrne 2012-2019 but licensed to you and everyone else CC BY-NC-SA 4.0._
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