Tag: Blockchain
Mastercard Is Buying Blockchain Analytics Start-Up CipherTrace
Mastercard has agreed to acquire blockchain analytics start-up CipherTrace, in the latest sign of how major companies are warming to cryptocurrencies.
The payments giant said...
Blockchain Code as Antitrust
By Thibault Schrepel (Stanford) & Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation)
In this article, the authors show that blockchain can help in reaching the goals of antitrust...
Is Blockchain the Real Antitrust Game Changer?
By Giovanna Massarotto (UCL Centre for Blockchain Technology)1
I. Introduction
Governments must anticipate today’s cutting-edge technologies to be effective in fast-moving markets. Blockchain potentially is...
Analyzing One Decade of Blockchain Litigation
Thibault Schrepel (Le Concurrentialiste)
Blockchain was first introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto with her/his/their article “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” published on October 31, 2008...
Grasping the Meaning of Big Tech Antitrust Consent
By Giovanna Massarotto (UCL & University of Iowa)1
I. Is Antitrust all about a Paradox?
Many academic lawyers and economists see antitrust enforcement as either being...
The Theory of Granularity: A Path for Antitrust in Blockchain Ecosystems
By Thibault Schrepel (Harvard)
Modern antitrust and competition law relies extensively on the firm as defined by Ronald Coase: a hierarchy reducing transaction costs thanks...
Antitrust by Design – The Prohibition of Anti-Competitive Coordination and the...
Posted by Social Science Research Network
Antitrust by Design – The Prohibition of Anti-Competitive Coordination and the Consensus Mechanism of the Blockchain
By Sebastian Louven &...
The Blockchain Antitrust Paradox
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Is Blockchain the Death of Antitrust Law? The Blockchain Antitrust Paradox
By Thibault Schrepel
To this day, the legal system has been...
EU: OECD Blockchain Policy Forum starts this week
On september 4th, the OECD is hosting its first Blockchain Policy Forum in Paris. The OECD Blockchain Policy Forum is the first major international...
Is Blockchain the Death of Antitrust Law? The Blockchain Antitrust Paradox
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Is Blockchain the Death of Antitrust Law? The Blockchain Antitrust Paradox
By Thibault Schrepel
To this day, the legal system has...
