Unsurprisingly, the Bitcoin Halving is when Bitcoin’s mining reward is split in half. Halvings occur about every four years; four years because the Bitcoin mining algo is set with a target of finding new blocks once every 10 minutes (more or less; on average 9.66 minutes), which would take about 1,409 days to mine the … Continue reading The Hype Surrounding the April 2024 Bitcoin Halving
One of the latest hot topics in crypto has been the recent rise in meme coin support. Meme coins come in all sorts: ones that predict Taylor Swift’s pregnancy and dog-themed meme coins. While many of these have started out as just memes without monetary value, the dog-themed meme coins Shiba Inu and Dogecoin, for … Continue reading Keeping up with the Altcoin Craze: PoliFi
As the weather begins to chill in November, the College Football Playoff race heats up. This year, the race, along with the last few years, has sported changes regarding what schools are playing sports where. In fact, seven of ten Football Bowl Subdivision conferences have or will undergo membership changes. Somewhat similar, but somewhat different, … Continue reading The Big Twelve: Crypto
On August 29th, 2023, after previous rejection, an appeals court held that the SEC must review Grayscale’s ETF bid. Specifically, the court noted the SEC's decision to reject the Grayscale Bitcoin ETF application was "arbitrary and capricious" in its ruling. As per the filings, See https://www.docdroid.net/vrehbKf/dc-cir-22-1142-01208547571-0-pdf, the court hereby ordered Grayscale's petition for review to … Continue reading The Salvation from the Crypto Winter: Appeals Court Rules SEC Must Review Grayscale’s ETF Bid
Currently, crypto has become more of a wild west than ever before. With the lack of federal clarity, crypto has been much of a free-for-all, leaving investors to suffer losses due to terrorist financing, money laundering, and fraudulent actors like FTX (thanks, Sam Bankman Fraud) and Celsius. We have heard growing calls for regulation… but … Continue reading The Clock is Ticking but what Regulatory Avenue to Take?
A decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, is a blockchain-based form of organization or company that is often governed by a native crypto token. Holders of these tokens gain the ability to vote on important matters directly related to the DAO. DAOs typically use smart contracts to coordinate the efforts and resources of many towards common … Continue reading Legal Liability for DAOs
At the crossroads of our virtual and real worlds––the online and offline––lies the metaverse. As we try to navigate the metaverse’s technology-advanced, online roads, much of our imagination has enabled us to enter and explore this entirely new world. Indeed, it is our imaginations that set the scope and the limitations of such a world. … Continue reading Is it Time to Set Up Shop in the Metaverse?
You know that buzzword “AI” or “Artificial Intelligence” you’ve heard being thrown around? The one that comes with talk of robots taking over the world by the end of 2050? Well, while many buzzwords are evanescent in nature, and even though the very being of AI relies on artificial, non-human systems or machines, there is … Continue reading Part 2 ~ An Intelligent Way to Protect the Artificial Inventor
Must an “inventor” be a human being? Indeed, in Thaler v. Commissioner of Patents the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia upheld the view of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms cannot be inventors for the purposes of a U.S. patent. Through a textualist lens, the court … Continue reading Part 1 ~ The Artificial Inventor: Is Artificial Intelligence Eligible to be an Inventor on a Patent?
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