Blockchain

The video of the conference I gave on April 11, 2019 at the IHEJ as part of the “Law and Mathematics” seminar is now online. You can find it at the following link: “The Blockchain, between law and non-law”.

On July 2, 2018, an interdisciplinary study day on Blockchains was held at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, which brought together computer scientists, economists, lawyers, entrepreneurs, lawyers and representatives of the State. This event was organized by Vincent DANOS (CNRS, INRIA, ENS), Alexis COLLOMB (CNAM, ILB), Primavera from FILIPPI (CNRS, Berkman Center) and myself. The videos of this day are ...

Note: this article was translated from French by an automated tool The French bill relating to Initial Coin Offerings is said to be tabled imminently. Here is the column that Adrien Basdevant and I have just published on the Institut Montaigne website. Launched in 2014 by Ethereum, which had chosen to finance itself by offering its own token, ether, against bitcoins, the phenomenon of ...

Note: this article was translated from French by an automated tool The young and dynamic (and sympathetic) team of Assas Legal Innovation now publishes on its site all kinds of interesting contributions on the subject of law and innovation. For my part, I had the pleasure of answering Baptiste Camus' questions (to read my answers on the association's website click here). Can France ...

Note: this article was translated from French by an automated tool In a post entitled “The Meaning of Decentralization”, the founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, distinguishes three modalities of decentralization of computer systems: the decentralization of the architecture, which depends on the number of computers constituting the system, the political decentralization, which depends on the number of individuals or organizations controlling the computers constituting the system logical decentralization, which depends on ...

The Tezos affair: the “ICO fever” and its risks If we have been talking about cryptocurrencies or virtual currencies for a few years now, the ICO seems to be the revelation of the year 2017. The last few months have seen a real “ICO fever”, completely new: fundraising of increasingly dizzying amounts has followed one another, worrying ...