Blockchain Bibliography

Here is the Blockchain Bibliography:

  • Abramowicz M, ‘Cryptocurrency-Based Law’ (2015) George Wash U, Research Paper 2015-9
  • Acheson N, ‘Blockchain Regulation: Is Europe Getting It Right?’ (CoinDesk Weekly Journal, 15 May 2017) www.coindesk.com/blockchain-regulation-europe-getting-right accessed 18 June 2017
  • Acheson N, ‘Regulating Ethereum? EU Parliament Weighs Blockchain’s Big Issues’ (CoinDesk Weekly Journal, 15 May 2017) www.coindesk.com/regulating-ethereum-eu-parliament-weighs-blockchains-big-issues accessed 12 June 2017
  • Andreessen M, ‘Why Software is Eating the World’ Wall Street Journal (New York, 20 August 2011) https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460
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  • Ayres I and Braithwaite J, Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate (OUP 1992)
  • Baldwin R, Cave M and Lodge M, Understanding Regulation: Theory, Strategy, and Practice (2nd edn, OUP 2014)
  • Bank of Canada, ‘Decentralized E-Money (Bitcoin)’ (Backgrounders, April 2014) www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Decentralize-E-Money.pdf
  • Bank Secrecy Act, Pub L 91-508, 84 Stat 1114 (USA)
  • Bauerle N, ‘How Could Blockchain Technology Change Finance?’ (CoinDesk Weekly Journal) www.coindesk.com/information/how-blockchain-technology-change-finance accessed 28 May 2017
  • Beckert S, Empire of Cotton (Random House 2014)
  • Benkler Y, The Wealth Of Networks (Yale UP 2006)
  • Bollen R, ‘The Legal Status of Online Currencies: Are Bitcoins the Future?’ (2013) 24 J Bank & Fin L & Prac 272
  • Bonini T, ‘Possono esistere delle (nuove) tecnologie conviviali?’ (Doppiozero, 22 luglio 2017) www.doppiozero.com/materiali/possono-esistere-delle-nuove-tecnologie-conviviali accessed 23 June 2017
  • Booth P, ‘Lessons from history show self-regulation to be the best kind of control,’ Telegraph (London, 8 August 2010) www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/7933318/Lessons-from-history-show-self-regulation-to-be-the-best-kind-of-control.html accessed 15 May 2017
  • Braithwaite AJ and Drahos P, Global Business Regulation (CUP 2000)
  • Brakeville S and Perepa B, Blockchain Basics: Introduction to Distributed Ledgers (IBM Developer Works, 9 May 2016) www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-blockchain-basics-intro-bluemix-trs/index.html accessed 4 July 2017
  • Brown RG, ‘A simple model for smart contracts’ (Richard Gendal Brown, 10 February 2015) www.gendal.me/2015/02/10/a-simple-model-for-smart-contracts accessed 24 June 2017
  • Buitenhek M, ‘Understanding and applying Blockchain technology in banking: Evolution or revolution?’ (2016) 1 J of Digital Banking 111
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  • Coinflip Inc, ‘Order Instituting Proceedings Pursuant to Sections 6(c) and 6(d) of the Commodity Exchange Act, Making Findings and Imposing Remedial Sanctions at 3’ (CFTC Docket No. 15-29, 17 September 2015) www.cftc.gov/idc/groups/public/@lrenforcementactions/documents/legalpleading/enfcoinfliprorder09172015.pdf accessed 2 June 2017
  • Craig P, Administrative Law (5th edn, Sweet &Maxwell 2003)
  • ECB, ‘Virtual currency schemes – a further analysis, Eurosystem Report’ (October 2012) www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes201210en.pdf
  • ECB, ‘Virtual currency schemes – a further analysis, Eurosystem Report’ (February 2015) www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemesen.pdf
  • Fairfield J, ‘BitProperty’ (2015) 88 S Cal L Rev 805
  • Fairfield J, ‘Smart Contracts, Bitcoin Bots, and Consumer Protection’ 71 (Wash & Lee L Rev Online 36 2014) http://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr-online/vol71/iss2/3/ accessed 9 July 2017.
  • Fiore P, ‘Cosí Draghi per liberare la BCE pensa alla blockchain’ (Smart Money, 25 February 2016) www.smartmoney.startupitalia.eu/banche/52084-20160225-draghi-bce-blockchain accessed 8 May 2017
  • Fisse B and Braithwaite J, Corporations, Crime and Accountability (CUP 1993)
  • Fogg GK, ‘Perkins Coie: The UCC and Bitcoins – Solution to Existing Fatal Flaw’ (CoinDesk Weekly Journal, 29 Jan 2015) www.coindesk.com/perkins-coie-bitcoin-can-learn-real-estate-law accessed 9 July 2017.
  • Foreman-Peck J and Millaward R, Public and Private Ownership of British Industry 1820–1990 (OUP 1994)
  • Francis JG, The Politics of Regulation: A Comparative Perspective (Blackwell 1993)
  • Griffin A, ‘Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence Could Wipe Out Humanity When It Gets Too Clear As Humans Will Be Like Ants’ Independent (London, 8 October 2015) www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/stephen-hawking-artificial-intelligence-could-wipe-out-humanity-when-it-gets-too-clever-as-humans-a6686496.html accessed 14 June 2017
  • Groshoff D, ‘Kickstarter My Heart: Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowdfunding Constraints And Bitcoin Bubbles’ (2014) 5 WM & MARY BUS L REV 489
  • Higgins S, ‘Blockchain regulation likely by 2019, Russian Ministry says’ (CoinDesk Weekly Journal, 8 May 2017) www.coindesk.com/blockchain-regulations-likely-2019-russian-ministry-says accessed 19 July 2017
  • Horwitz R, The Irony of Regulatory Reform: The Deregulation of the American Telecommunications Industry (OUP 1989)
  • IBM Survey, ‘Blockchain Adoption Moving Rapidly in Banking and Financial Markets: Some 65 Percent of Surveyed Banks Expect to be in Production in Three Years’ (28 Sep 2016) www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/50617.wss accessed 12 may 2017
  • Illich I, Tools for Conviviality (Harper and Row 1973)
  • ISO/TC 307, ‘Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies’ www.iso.org/committee/6266604.html
  • Kalla S, ‘The Case for Banks to Use Open Public Blockchains’ (American Banker, 9 March 2016) www.americanbanker.com/opinion/the-case-for-banks-to-use-open-public-blockchains accessed 5 August 2017
  • Kaye B, ‘Australian inquiry says digital currencies are real money’ (Reuters, 5 August 2015) www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-bitcoin-idUSKCN0QA0TS20150805 accessed 23 May 2017
  • Kelly J, ‘Microsoft launches cloud-based blockchain platform with Brooklyn start-up’ (Reuters, 10 November 2015) www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-tech-blockchain-idUSKCN0SZ2ER20151110
  • Kiviat TI, ‘Beyond Bitcoin: Issues In Regulating Blockchain Transactions’ (2015) 65 Duke LJ 569
  • Kyodo, ‘Bitcoins lost in Mt. Gox debacle “not subject to ownership” claims: Tokyo court’ The Japan Times (Tokyo, 6 August 2015) www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/06/national/crime-legal/bitcoins-lost-in-mt-gox-debacle-not-subject-to-ownership-claims-tokyo-court-rules accessed 23 may 2017
  • Levine AB and Antonopoulos AM, ‘Let’s talk Bitcoin! #149 Price and popularity’ (podcast, Let’s Talk Bitcoin, 30 September 2014) http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/lets-talk-bit-coin-149-price-and-popularity
  • Levine D and Forrence R, ‘Regulatory Capture, Public Interest and the Public Agenda: Towards Synthesis’ (1990) 6 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 167
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  • Marvin R, ‘Blockchain in 2017: The Year of Smart Contracts’ (PCmag, 12 December 2016) www.pcmag.com/article/350088/blockchain-in-2017-the-year-of-smart-contracts accessed 4 July 2017
  • McDonald RL, Derivatives Markets (2nd edn, Northwestern UP 2006)
  • Middlebrook ST and Hughes SJ, ‘Regulating Cryptocurrencies in the United States: Current Issues and Future Directions’ (2014) 40
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  • Morgan B and Yeung MK, An Introduction to Law and Regulation: Text and Materials (CUP 2007)
  • Murck P, ‘Who Controls the Blockchain?’ (Harvard Business Review, 19 April 2017) www.hbr.org/2017/04/who-controls-the-blockchain accessed 5 July 2017
  • Nation J, ‘Vinay Gupta Speaks To European Parliament About Blockchain Technology’ (ETH News, 11 May 2017) www.ethnews.com/vinay-gupta-speaks-to-european-parliament-about-blockchain-technology accessed 12 July 2017
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  • Nguyen QK, ‘Blockchain – A Financial Technology for Future Sustainable Development’ (3rd International Conference on Green Technology and Sustainable Development (GTSD), Kaohsiung, November 2016)
  • Ogus AI, ‘Regulation: Legal Form and Economic Theory’ (1996) 59 The Modern Law Review
  • Ogus AI, ‘Regulation: Regulatory Law: Some Lessons from the Past’ (1992) 12 Legal Studies 1
  • Oliver Wyman Survey, ‘The Fintech 2.0 Paper: rebooting financial services’ www.oliverwyman.com/content/dam/oliver-wyman/global/en/2015/jun/The_Fintech_2_0_Paper_Final_PV.pdf accessed 2 July 2017
  • Peters G, Panayi E, and Chapelle A, ‘Trends in crypto-currencies and blockchain technologies: A monetary theory and regulation perspective’ (2015) 3 Journal of Financial Perspectives (EY Global Financial Services Institute Winter)
  • Pilkington M, ‘Blockchain Technology: Principles and Applications’ in F. Xavier Olleros and Majlinda Zhegu (eds) Research
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  • From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond: The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in a Digital Society (Off the Commons Books 2014)
  • Plassaras NA, ‘Regulating Digital Currencies: Bringing Bitcoin Within the Reach of the IMF’ (2013) 14 CHI J INT L 377
  • Prosser T, ‘Regulation and Social Solidarity’ (2006) 33 Journal of Law and Society 364
  • Rees T, ‘Regulating Bitcoin: how new frameworks could be a catalyst for cryptocurrencies’ Telegraph (London, 16 April 2017) www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/04/16/regulating-bitcoin-new-frameworks-could-catalyst-cryptocurrencies accessed 6 May 2017
  • Remoreras G, ‘Forecast 2020: Web 3.0+ and Collective Intelligence’ (Glenn Remoreras Blog, 28 July 2010) www.glennremoreras.com/2010/07/28/forecast2020 accessed 8 June 2017
  • Reyes CL, ‘Moving Beyond Bitcoin to an Endogenous Theory of Decentralized Ledger Technology Regulation: An Initial Proposal’ (2016) 61 Villanova Law Review 191
  • Rigsby J, ‘Virtual Currency, Blockchain Technology, and EU Law: The “Next Internet” in AML/CFT Regulation’s Shadow (Master’s thesis, Lund University Spring 2016)
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  • Schroeder JL, ‘Bitcoin and the Uniform Commercial Code’ (2015) Benjamin N. Cardozo Sch. Law, Research Paper 458
  • Shearing C, ‘A Constitutive Conception of Regulation’ in P. Grabosky and J. Braithwaite (eds) Business Regulation and Australia’s Future (Australian Institute of Criminology 1993)
  • Shin L, ‘Blockchain Summit Examines The Role Of Privilege In Spreading A Democratizing Technology’ (Forbes, 4 August 2017) www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/08/04/blockchain-summit-examines-the-role-of-privilege-in-spreading-a-democratizing-technology accessed 9 August 2017
  • Skinner C, ‘The five major use cases for financial blockchains’ (Brave NewCoin, 11 March 2016) www.bravenewcoin.com/news/the-five-major-use-cases-for-financial-blockchains accessed 1 August 2017
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  • Sulleyman A, ‘Elon Musk: Humans Must Become Cyborgs To Avoid AI Domination’ Independent (London, 15 February 2017) www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musk-humans-cyborgs-ai-domination-robots-artificial-intelligence-ex-machina-a7581036.html accessed 29 May 2017
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  • Swan M, Blockchain, Blueprint for a New Economy (1st edn, O’Reilly 2015)
  • Swanson T, ‘Blockchain 2.0. Let a Thousand Chains Blossom’ (Let’s talk Bitcoin, 8 April 2014) www.letstalkbitcoin.com/blockchain-2-0-let-a-thousand-chains-blossom
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Contributo di Giovanni Perani, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Expert at Carnelutti Law Firm, LL.M. at Singapore Management University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
I CHAPTER – BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
1.1. BLOCKCHAIN: A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY
1.2. BLOCKCHAIN FROM 1.0 TO 3.0.
1.3. A GLANCE AT THE IMMEDIATE AND DISTANT FUTURE
II CHAPTER – THE OBJECTIVES OF REGULATION
2.1. UNDERSTANDING REGULATIONS
2.2. THE BIRTH OF NEW REGULATIONS
2.3. THE PURPOSE OF REGULATIONS
III CHAPTER – CURRENT SITUATION
3.1. EARLY REGULATIONS AND ACTIONS BY STATES
3.2. CASES AND EARLY FRAMEWORKS
3.3. SHOULD THE TECHNOLOGY ITSELF BE REGULATED AS DISTINCT FROM THE APPLICATIONS?
IV CHAPTER – ANALYSIS
4.1. WHAT: IS IT THE DLT TECHNOLOGY OR THE APPLICATION WHICH MUST BE REGULATED? AND WHEN: BEFORE OR AFTER CREATION?
4.2. WHO AND HOW: DO WE NEED A SPECIFIC NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION OR WHO SHOULD HAVE THE POWER TO DO SO?
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY