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'Transactional law' practice (venture, M&A, etc.) is fundamentally broken, marked by an evil convergence of self-perpetuating bad incentives that make it almost impossible to reform or even incrementally improve. Yes,

very pressed for time lately but I finally reviewed more info about the Harvest thing this morningtldr: very hard to see how this constitutes 'hacking'only plausible claim I can see

I'm getting a lot of casual legal questions about smart contract exploits/"hacking" again. I have yet to write my own thing directly on this topic so I will just drop

Not sure I've been this bored of my life in a long time. Need a new mission to work on--one where I can actually make an impact that I can

SEC wins summary judgment vs. Kik for securities law violations in ICO*THREAD TIME* https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/79413/sec-summary-judgment-win-kik-ico https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.516941/gov.uscourts.nysd

I don't think much realism was applied to ETH 2.0 design. There is no non-custodial solution for staking-as-a-service, which means Coinbase et. al. will dominate because they already know how

it's close to pointless to be a lawyer in crypto/blockchainpeople with either trading or coding skills are making huge money or being super creative, or both law is irrelevant to

I'm not quite this pessimistic yet, but closeMost people doing "governance" seem to be reinventing the wheel and ignoring history and context. I agree legacy systems are not perfect (far

I get a lot of calls/questions--do I need a "legal wrapper" for my DAO? First, what is a "legal wrapper"? It is not necessarily an entity. It could be any

When I left an 8-year BigLaw career doing multibillion dollar deals, I thought blockchain would take the best of traditional law/finance & surpass them. In the 2.5 years since, the

Very interesting cryptocurrency-related opinion out of New Zealand. See below thread for why this is an interesting & good result for crypto holders: https://twitter.com/CourtsofNZ/status/1247770583737102336 Cryptopia suffered a large hack and

I think the BigLaw cuts will get much worse and associates will get "Lathamed" like in '08. BigLaw got very complacent in recent years and is suffering from immense bloat.