Digital assets such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other crypto-tokens have grown and evolved at great speed – the law must adapt to accommodate them. 📗 Read our new set of law reform proposals for digital assets – out today: lawcom.gov.uk/law-commission… #digitalassets #crypto

Why crypto really is a new kind of 'thing' lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-and…

Coin Center statement on Tornado Cash: U.S. Treasury sanction of privacy tools places sweeping restrictions on all Americans. Sanctioned Tornado Cash smart contract is a tool, not a person. coincenter.org/u-s-treasury-s…

1/ With all due respect Chair Gary Gensler, regulation by op-ed still is not regulation. Should we conclude that based on 1 instance of crypto lending, “the SEC Treats Crypto Like the Rest of the Capital Markets?” To extend this reasoning to cars (the op-ed's own analogy)...

🚨Tulip Trading (Craig Wright v Bitcoin Core devs and others) appeal listed for 7 December 🚨

NEW: We have launched a call for evidence asking users and other experts for information about how decentralised autonomous organisations (#DAOs) can be characterised, and how the law of England and Wales might accommodate them. Find out more here: lawcom.gov.uk/law-commission…

Is anyone building James Grimmelmann's IDE for law? james.grimmelmann.net/files/articles… Accord Project looks like the closest thing? cc Computational Legal, Michael Bommarito, Megan Ma, CodeX Stanford

Best month for hot takes about Blur and Oasis since August 1995.

Code is not law. When basic legal principles can be applied (great thread), the “code is law” crowd should accept when the code is used consistently with these legal principles. The world view supports court-ordered actions (lest it be “code is extra-legal”).

Gary Gensler: The securities laws are clear US Bankruptcy Judge:

in a hyperinflationary environment, all assets carry a reasonable expectation of profit from the efforts of others (the Fed) and therefore all assets are securities I'm sorry but I don't make the rules. You must comply.

Timely.

Legend.

👌 Caitlin Long 🔑⚡️🟠

🤩 Ecstatic to have a hard copy of “Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice” edited by Jason Grant Allen and Peter Hunn! Even cooler that Jason signed it! Looking forward to collabs SMU Yong Pung How School of Law that bring #law back into the #ComputationalLaw discussion!

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This weekend, we filed a letter applauding 👏 the UK's efforts to provide regulatory clarity and enhance consumer protections in web3. Here’s what to expect and our take on the future of web3 in the UK. 🧵 a16zcrypto.com/content/papers…

”Yes, Bitcoin was destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of revenue for miners.”