TY  - GEN
AU  - De Filippi,Primavera
AU  - Wright,Aaron
TI  - Blockchain and the law: the rule of code / 
SN  - 9780674241596 (pbk)
AV  - QA 76.9 D313b 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Blockchains (Bases de datos)
KW  - Tecnología y derecho
KW  - Cifrado de datos (Informática)
KW  - Internet en la administración pública
KW  - Internet
KW  - Política gubernamental
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Bitcoin has been hailed as an Internet marvel and decried as the preferred transaction vehicle for criminals. It has left nearly everyone without a computer science degree confused: how do you "mine" money from ones and zeros? The answer lies in a technology called blockchain. A general-purpose tool for creating secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer applications, blockchain technology has been compared to the Internet in both form and impact. Blockchains are being used to create "smart contracts," to expedite payments, to make financial instruments, to organize the exchange of data and information, and to facilitate interactions between humans and machines. But by cutting out the middlemen, they run the risk of undermining governmental authorities' ability to supervise activities in banking, commerce, and the law. As this essential book makes clear, the technology cannot be harnessed productively without new rules and new approaches to legal thinking
ER  -