Off the Blockchain+, February 17-24, 2025

Even before Paul Atkins is confirmed as the next Chair of the SEC, the agency had a busy week with the crypto task force opening up for submissions on how to regulate crypto and various investigations and lawsuits likely going by the wayside.  This all happened the same week there was the biggest hack inContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 17-24, 2025”

Off the Blockchain+, October 14-21, 2024

Intro/Disclaimer: Since late 2022, I’ve prepared weekly updates for attorneys at my firm to stay abreast of the latest Web3 legal developments. The biggest stories are included in Bi-Weekly posts on the firm’s BitBlog, where we provide tl;dr overviews and insights into the biggest stories from the past two weeks. I post the weekly updatesContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, October 14-21, 2024”

Let’s Talk About Bots, Baby

A Twitter thread went semi-viral recently (and has been since deleted) where an apparent 15-year old computing wizard earned over $17 million through the use of automated computer programs (“bots”) to game recently hyped NFT drops (Murakami Flowers and Otherside land). While we are in a space where technological innovation is celebrated, the use ofContinue reading “Let’s Talk About Bots, Baby”