Innovations
The internet of things, artificial intelligence, quantum computers, robots, blockchain databases, neural networks, and many other things that look like an outtake from a sci-fi geek’s fantasy are now real, or at least are likely to become real in our lifetime. How do lawmakers react to those new developments? Can their regulations strangle innovations to death? Should they follow in their wake, or it’s better to set out the rules in advance? Let’s journey to this brave new world together.
Borderless Nations of Bitnation: a Libertarian Utopia or Yet Another Disruption
As the world is getting increasingly globalized, sovereign borders start dissolving in human minds. However, while the internet offers the vision of a borderless world, the real life offers something completely different. If someone wants to live, study, or work in another country, they have to go to incredible lengths through a bureaucratic maze in …
Iran’s Bitcoin Ban and the Ways of Cryptocurrency in the Greater Middle East
The Islamic Republic of Iran has joined the bandwagon of almost a dozen countries that decided not to deal with crypto or leave it all to the government approved currencies only. While earlier this year Iran authorities were planning to create their own national digital currency, now the country’s Central Bank has forbidden all financial …
Trading in Сryptocurrencies and Still not Broker-dealer Registered? Should You?
Should you be an ICO advisor, p2p platform, or in the of business connecting “investors” or customers interested in cryptocurrencies and their targets, otherways trading in cryptocurrency, you must have got the feeling of half-legality and lack of secureness at least once. Well, as it is expressly disclaimed everywhere, the risks and merits are always …
China’s Leading Legal Practitioner: Regulatory Moves Globally Are to Help Bring Cryptomarket Into Legitimacy
China has a long tradition of blocking unwanted foreign websites by using the so-called Great Firewall of China. This time, the country is reportedly moving to block domestic traders and investors from accessing websites that offer cryptocurrency trading services or ICOs. The move comes months after China formally banned both initial token offerings and cryptocurrency …
Dr. Alex Norta: Current Situation with Government Regulation Must Be Intolerable
As the interest in blockchain tech is on the rise, it is important to identify what topics have been already studied and addressed in this area and what are currently the biggest challenges and limitations that need to be further addressed. With the objective to understand current state of the industry, Tamar Menteshashvili of lawless.tech …
Ivo Georgiev: Regulating Things Prematurely out of Fear Usually Leads to Nothing but Blocking Human Progress
In order to gather opinions on the regulations of innovative technologies, lawless.tech has initiated a series of interviews with the key specialists behind blockchain-projects; those who make the industry tick. This time Krzysztof Shyak of lawless.tech asked Ivo Georgiev, co-founder of AdEx, an experienced software engineer versed in cryptography and cryptocurrencies, several questions about the …