OECD Blockchain Summit
The Australian Financial Review published an interesting summary on some of the comments from the OECD - OCDE gathering in Paris, where...
Steven Pettigrove, Partner, Piper Alderman
Michael Bacina, Partner, Travers Thorp Alberga
The Australian Financial Review published an interesting summary on some of the comments from the OECD - OCDE gathering in Paris, where...
The Australian published an interesting opinion piece from Niall Ferguson of the The Hoover Institution, Stanford University on the rise...
CryptoKitties was an overnight sensation in 2017 (with over US$1M spent on digital cats within days of launch), and at one point...
Interesting products coming soon from Amazon: 1) Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) - spoiler alert - the reference to Quantum is more...
Exciting project OpenLaw has announced "The LAO", what they are calling the "DAO Mark II" - Decentralised Autonomous Organisations are ...
The Global Digital Finance group has finalised their Code of Conduct for Stablecoins, Security Tokens and AML/KYC...
Reuters is reporting that China's state issued cryptocurrency might be ready as early as 11 November.
The Marshall Islands, a longtime user of the USD, is progressing with its plans to issue a sovereign digital currency on Blockchain.
Sierra Leone has announced plans to put a National ID in place using Blockchain, with assistance from the United Nations and non-profit Kiva
On 18 June 2019 Facebook released its whitepaper for its long-awaited planned cryptocurrency Libra coin, disclosing that Facebook will...
On 30 May 2019, ASIC updated its guidance on initial coin offerings (ICOs) and crypto-assets. Since being last updated in May 2018,...
In the wake of the fifth anniversary of Mt Gox’s collapse, it is worth re-examining what happened and considering some of the key legal...
As part of a review into Initial Coin Offerings, the Australian Government Treasury has recently published an Issues Paper (Review)...
Aren’t lawyers supposed to be out of a job by now? There continues to be a lot of hype around blockchain and smart contracts as the...
There has been increasing interest in initial coin offering/token sale/token generation events (ICO) in Australia this year. Below we set...
Since Bitcoin was introduced in 2008, it has continued to grow in popularity, public awareness and adoption. As of the time of writing,...
2017 was been a stellar year for cryptocurrency valuations in general and Bitcoin in particular. On 1 January 2017 the USD$ value of a...