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Regulating Blockchain: Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology
As the distributed architecture underpinning the Bitcoin anarcho-capitalist project, blockchain entered the imagination and the vocabulary of many people only recently. But as a largely unregulated phenomenon, it is set to impact the lives of billions of people in ways that may not benefit all, but instead simply line the pockets of a few elites.
| Author(s) | By Robert Herian (Open University, UK). |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 186 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 1 Oct 2018 |
| Availability | Available |
As the distributed architecture underpinning the Bitcoin anarcho-capitalist project, blockchain entered the imagination and the vocabulary of many people only recently. But as a largely unregulated phenomenon, it is set to impact the lives of billions of people in ways that may not benefit all, but instead simply line the pockets of a few elites.
Introduction Part I Regulating blockchain 1 Blockchain Interlude I: Supplementing the memory economic: ... Wampum, memex, transcopyright, blockchain ... 2 A regulatory conundrum 3 Regulatory tradition 4 Blockchain the regulator Inte
Robert Herian is based in the Law School at The Open University. His teaching and research focus on private law, psychoanalysis, social, economic and political philosophy, and cultural theory.
