Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech


OpSec and the Bitcoin business
By Craig Wright | 23 Oct 2018 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Law & Regulation

There are a number of specialist topics in organisational OPSEC and concepts that need to be defined before going into

Non-Repudiation — Does this exist?
By Craig Wright | 22 Oct 2018 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Law & Regulation

There is a definitional distinction between the legal use of the term “non-repudiation” and the common use that has taken

Effective Enforcement in the Vastly Distributed Wild Wild Web
By Craig Wright | 21 Oct 2018 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Law & Regulation

Some time ago Hilary E Pearson (1996) noted that, “in many cases, liability will depend upon how a court faced

Managing Blockchain Automata

This umbrella document describes a distributed platform open to public participation for managing the automation of tasks that interfaces with

Phases of the Bitcoin system
By Craig Wright | 20 Oct 2018 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Economics, Law & Regulation

The Bitcoin system may be broken down into the following “phases”: Mining; Holding Bitcoin; and Transferring Bitcoin. Each of these

DFA compilation and execution

We present an analysis of the establishment and execution of contractual agreements embodied as deterministic finite automata (DFA). The contract

Rights as property
By Craig Wright | 19 Oct 2018 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Economics, Law & Regulation

In its simplest form, a bitcoin transaction involves the creation of an entry in a ledger. The value on the

Monetary transfer and transmission rules
By Craig Wright | 18 Oct 2018 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Economics, Law & Regulation

The exchange of bitcoin for other currencies clearly comes under existing AML[1] regulations, and where an exchange[2] has been used

A distribution protocol for dealer-less secret distribution
By Craig Wright | 17 Oct 2018 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech

In this post I again preview a paper written a couple of years ago, but not yet published. The first

Blockchain-Based Decentralised Autonomous Corporations: An Overview
By Craig Wright | 17 Oct 2018 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Economics, Math

This document is intended to provide an overview on Decentralised Autonomous Corporations (DAC) based on the blockchain technology. Note, Bitcoin

Foreign-exchange considerations & Bitcoin
By Craig Wright | 17 Oct 2018 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Economics

The inherently international nature of Bitcoin lends its use to the requirement to account for foreign-exchange valuations. This does not

Digital signature rules and their relationship to bitcoin
By Craig Wright | 16 Oct 2018 | Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech, Economics

UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signatures with Guide to Enactment (2001) has been widely adopted. The Electronic Signature Law of

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