AI Breaks the World, Crypto Fixes it, Part V: OnlyFakes Requires New Forms of...
I write this post for you from 30,000 feet above France, on my way back to America from another wonderful Satoshi Roundtable event in Dubai. We are about to descend into London so I must keep my...
View ArticleOn the Brave Technologist podcast
I was on the Brave Technologist podcast this week with my friend Luke Mulks, talking about crypto regulation, legal aspects of decentralized app design, the First Amendment, and the intersection of...
View ArticleThe Wyoming Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act,...
Wyoming this week enacted the DUNAA, the “Wyoming Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act,” which created a new type of corporate form called DUNAs or “Decentralized Unincorporated...
View ArticleOn the CryptoLaw podcast with Gabe Shapiro
I guest hosted John Deaton’s CryptoLaw podcast this week with MetaLex founder and cryptolawyer par excellence Gabe Shapiro. Watch the whole thing below:
View ArticleAI will wipe out public education in ten years
Putting down a marker here. Today OpenAI announced GPT4o. Simply put, it is the most amazing product launch I have ever seen. It’s funny that this should be a Khan Academy demo. A good friend of mine –...
View ArticleThanks to NetChoice v. Paxton, this 4th of July, the First Amendment is in...
Note: this article also appeared in The Blaze. Among the various unhinged responses to the Supreme Court’s opinions from the Spring 2024 term, some of the most thoroughly deranged relate to the...
View ArticleTwo broadsides against British censorship law
Was in England last week and fired some editorial broadsides against the British online censorship apparatus, which I share here for my regular readers. The first was a piece in Pirate Wires coauthored...
View ArticleThoughts on the Durov arrest
Today we learn that Pavel Durov, founder of the popular messaging app Telegram, has been arrested as his private jet landed in France. Early indications are that the arrest stems from Telegram’s...
View ArticleOn the Galaxy Brains podcast talking Telegram, crypto, etc.
I was on Galaxy Digital’s podcast, Galaxy Brains, talking to my friend Alex Thorn about legal issues worthy of consideration in relation to the recent arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov. Links to...
View ArticleEurope can’t silence American free speech; it can only silence itself
A version of this blog post also appeared in The Blaze. Over the past month, the left-wing Guardian newspaper in England has run no fewer than three op-eds calling for Elon Musk’s arrest for violating...
View ArticleOn Blaze TV talking about threats to arrest U.S. social media entrepreneurs
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View ArticleUK Free Speech as a Sword, not a Shield
Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty frames liberty in two senses: “negative” and “positive.” The use of these terms is not normative but rather a description of how such liberties function within...
View ArticleWhy I joined Arkham
Today Arkham announces the launch of its perpetuals and spot crypto exchange. I’m also pleased to announce I’ve joined the company. “How did this happen?” I hear you ask. Our story begins back in June...
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