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Apr. 12, 2019

The new transaction paradigm

Blockchain technology has many potential applications, but it is not without pitfalls and perils, which Primavera de Filippi and Aaron Wright outline well in their new book, “Blockchain and the Law.”

Richard Wirick

Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).

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The new transaction paradigm
Harvard University Press, 310 Pages

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How do you make money out of zeros and ones? The answer is with blockchains, a general-purpose tool for fashioning decentralized peer-to-peer transactions that are also relatively secure. Blockchains are being used for Bitcoin, the digital currency that appeared in 2009. But they have other, quite amazing uses: the creation of financial instruments, organization of data and information, and the facilitation...

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