Late Monday, popular nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, platform OpenSea once again delisted the CryptoPunks v1 collection, which spiraled into existence along with the iconic CryptoPunks v2 collection due to a smart contract bug. This was allegedly due to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice issued by CryptoPunks v2 developers Larva Labs to OpenSea. As the company is … [Read more...] about OpenSea once again delists CryptoPunks v1 as legal battle heats up
Legal
Blockchain is just a database without crypto, legal expert says
Blockchain can’t be separated from crypto in a progressive manner because extracting blockchain from crypto diminishes the former to a glorified database, leaving all the exciting opportunities out, Turkish law expert Elçin Karatay told Cointelegraph.As a country that saw Bitcoin (BTC) hit an all-time high on a very different date than the rest of the world, Turkey’s efforts on … [Read more...] about Blockchain is just a database without crypto, legal expert says
Meet the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeOn today’s episode, NLW covers:The new Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund from Jack Dorsey and othersCrypto nuggets from 250 pages of former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s emailsThe latest out of the Agriculture and Energy committees in Congress as it relates to crypto regulationCrypto … [Read more...] about Meet the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
Dorsey Proposes Non-Profit Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund for Developers
The main purpose of the fund will be to defend developers from from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem, Dorsey wrote in an email to the bitcoin-dev mailing list dated Jan 12. Jan 12, 2022 at 6:27 a.m. UTCUpdated Jan 12, 2022 at 6:27 a.m. UTCJack Dorsey (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Source link … [Read more...] about Dorsey Proposes Non-Profit Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund for Developers
What Are Privacy Coins and Are They Legal?
Monero is one of the only privacy coins that is private by default. Unlike Zcash, you can’t turn its privacy functions off. To hide transaction data, Monero uses one-time-use “stealth addresses” for each transaction; “ring signatures”, which group genuine transactions with old “decoy” transactions to make it difficult to work out which transaction is legitimate, and “ringCT”, … [Read more...] about What Are Privacy Coins and Are They Legal?