Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech
OpSec and the Bitcoin business
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
This document is intended to provide an overview on Decentralised Autonomous Corporations (DAC) based on the blockchain technology. Note, Bitcoin
Foreign-exchange considerations & Bitcoin
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
UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signatures with Guide to Enactment (2001) has been widely adopted. The Electronic Signature Law of