Tag: Blockchain

The battle over blockchain technology and digital assets bears a striking resemblance to the debate over the potential of the internet in the mid-1990s....

The European Securities and Markets Authority launched a consultation on January 4 seeking feedback from stakeholders about the need to amend the regulatory technical standards (RTS)...

Former co-chairs of Morrison & Foerster's blockchain and smart contracts group, Susan Gault-Brown and Dario de Martino, have moved to Stradley Ronon Stevens &...

Mastercard has agreed to acquire blockchain analytics start-up CipherTrace, in the latest sign of how major companies are warming to cryptocurrencies. The payments giant said...

By Thibault Schrepel (Stanford) & Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation) In this article, the authors show that blockchain can help in reaching the goals of antitrust...

By Giovanna Massarotto (UCL Centre for Blockchain Technology)1   I. Introduction Governments must anticipate today’s cutting-edge technologies to be effective in fast-moving markets. Blockchain potentially is...

Thibault Schrepel (Le Concurrentialiste) Blockchain was first introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto with her/his/their article “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” published on October 31, 2008...

By Giovanna Massarotto (UCL & University of Iowa)1 I. Is Antitrust all about a Paradox? Many academic lawyers and economists see antitrust enforcement as either being...

By Thibault Schrepel (Harvard) Modern antitrust and competition law relies extensively on the firm as defined by Ronald Coase: a hierarchy reducing transaction costs thanks...

Posted by Social Science Research Network Antitrust by Design – The Prohibition of Anti-Competitive Coordination and the Consensus Mechanism of the Blockchain By Sebastian Louven &...