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...
View ArticleThe online censorship war isn’t over – but free speech is winning
Before reading this post, I highly recommend watching Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement about censorship policy over at Meta. I have been active in the fight against online censorship since 2011,...
View ArticleThoughts on $TRUMP from a cryptolawyer
Writing in a purely personal capacity here. For avoidance of doubt, none of the below is legal advice. By now, virtually the entire political universe knows that Donald John Trump, the 45th and, as of...
View ArticleThoughts from a private citizen on the Madison Academy Community Center proposal
Hi. I’m Preston and I live in a small town called Madison, CT. I work in advanced technology fields including AI, crypto and social media. I first moved to Madison when I was 12 years old, left town to...
View ArticleUK Government Tech Policy Must Become Very Libertarian, Very Quickly
Friday’s edition of the Washington Post reveals that the United Kingdom has served Apple with a secret order, a so-called capability notice under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, demanding that Apple...
View ArticleWe Will Be Welcomed As Liberators
Five days ago, on February 7th, I wrote the following on the subject of the UK’s attempts to use the Investigatory Powers Act to cripple Apple’s cryptography: This is the latest in a long line of...
View ArticleRemarks to the Free Speech Union, February 12th, 2025
This is the opening statement I will be delivering for the opposition on the motion “A Bill of Rights Would Not Protect Free Speech” in a debate hosted by the UK Free Speech Union on Wednesday, 12...
View ArticleMadison Budget Madness
This is a follow-up to my piece on the Madison Academy Community Center Project. Academy update. First, on the topic of the conversion of the derelict Academy building into a community center, one...
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