Alternative Coins & Systems
Crowd Funding and ICOs
The following are some notes on ICOs (all are securities) that can act as a set of things to consider.
Expectation of Profits
The US Howey case used the Expectation of Profit as an element in International Brotherhood of Teamsters vs Daniel. Daniel
True Sale and Insolvency Challenges in ICO Token Sales
In the English law, “true sale” incorporates the securitisation structures around existing receivables in two forms. We first have to
The scams in Crypto
I will discuss the current state of play in ICOs. In my posts, I will demonstrate categorically that no token
Myths of permission-less
In the world of Bitcoin there are many false narratives and myths. This started with the myth of decentralisation. In
Taxing Bitcoin — Introduction.
Bitcoin is money, but it is also a ledger, a commodity and a token. It is all these things and
Managing Blockchain Automata
This umbrella document describes a distributed platform open to public participation for managing the automation of tasks that interfaces with
DFA compilation and execution
We present an analysis of the establishment and execution of contractual agreements embodied as deterministic finite automata (DFA). The contract
A codification scheme for state machines
We define a codification scheme for the states of deterministic finite automaton (DFA) [1]. Contrary to usual practice, the codification
Symmetric Fair Exchange Protocol
Background In a fair exchange protocol two parties either both honour an exchange (such as a contract), or neither of
Security
Honestly I find it difficult to understand why people do not get the idea of why errors and low-quality software
Trust in Smart Contracts
Both electronic and paper documents are subject to tampering. The discovery of collisions has demonstrated that the process of signing