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Dec 29, 2022

2023 — Starting a New Chapter

Eight years ago, in December 2014, I published my first blog post on Medium, to give an account of Smart Contracts and their meaning from a legal perspective. …

Web3

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2023 — Starting a New Chapter
2023 — Starting a New Chapter
Web3

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Feb 3, 2021

Can the Wikipedia-model be applied to Public Policy-Making?

In this post I argue why public policy-making is broken and propose a new model of how it could be fixed. To test these ideas in practice, I’ve started poli.cy. What is public policy? According to Wikipedia “public policy is the process by which governments translate their political vision into programmes and actions to…

Politics

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Can the Wikipedia-model be applied to Public Policy-Making?
Can the Wikipedia-model be applied to Public Policy-Making?
Politics

11 min read


Jul 13, 2018

Calling all legal professionals and tech innovators

Join us at the Swiss Legal Tech Hackathon & Conference 2018 — The upcoming Swiss Legal Tech 2018 aims to rethink, reshape and refresh the legal industry. It’s the second Swiss edition of a series of European legal tech events that are unique in the way they bring together legal practitioners, software developers and digital innovators. …

Startup

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Calling all legal professionals and tech innovators
Calling all legal professionals and tech innovators
Startup

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Feb 12, 2017

The Berlin Legal Tech 2017 Hackathon: Retrospective and Future Roadmaps

While my mind is still trying to grasp the magnitude of the last three days, I feel compelled to share a first glimpse into what happened…

Hackathons

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The Berlin Legal Tech 2017 Hackathon: Retrospective and Future Roadmaps
The Berlin Legal Tech 2017 Hackathon: Retrospective and Future Roadmaps
Hackathons

7 min read


Sep 10, 2016

A Blockchain Token Taxonomy

Tokens were one of the first applications based on a blockchain infrastructure that pushed the technology beyond its original use as an accounting ledger for a public blockchain network’s base currency. …

Blockchain

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Blockchain

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Feb 1, 2016

How we use Smart Contracts at SatoshiPay to change the Internet’s Economy forever. Today!

About the Author — Florian Glatz is a lawyer and software developer based in Berlin. At SatoshiPay he develops both software and legal solutions based on Blockchain technology. You can find out more about him at blockchain.lawyer. Introduction Much has been talked about Smart Contracts, the curious idea of machine-readable, auto-enforceable agreements between two or…

Blockchain

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How we use Smart Contracts at SatoshiPay to change the Internet’s economy forever. Today!
How we use Smart Contracts at SatoshiPay to change the Internet’s economy forever. Today!
Blockchain

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Jun 13, 2015

The Quiet Death of Ripple’s Codiu§ Project

Why decentralized infrastructure has still a long way to go Ripple Labs Inc, steward of the Ripple Protocol and manager of the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization after Bitcoin, has quietly shelved the open source project Codius, which it had founded about a year ago and actively maintained ever since. Although the code was eventually versioned to a symbolic…

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The Quiet Death of Ripple’s Codiu§ Project
The Quiet Death of Ripple’s Codiu§ Project

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May 18, 2015

Smart Contracts, Platforms and Intermediaries

Taken from Moderat — Bad Kingdom Abstract Crypto Economics as a mixed human-machine system that is fueled by economic incentivisation mechanisms displays an interesting approach to an organizational problem, that is currently solved through a monolithic platform approach. The new model carries its own governance problems, when it comes to establishing…

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Smart Contracts, Platforms and Intermediaries
Smart Contracts, Platforms and Intermediaries

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May 13, 2015

The Political Economy of Computing

Taking technological change seriously in the social sciences. Ada Lovelace, who invented the first programming language. F.G. This article makes no specific claim about what the social sciences are and which disciplines do or do not fall under its name. The perspective I take is situated at the “intersection between information theory, cryptography, sociology, epistemology, politics and economics”[1].

Law

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The Political Economy
of Computing
The Political Economy
of Computing
Law

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May 4, 2015

Modes of Contractual Governance in an On-Demand Service Economy

What has been dubbed the ‘Uber-for-X’ approach in the startup world, and the transformation to a on-demand service economy by scholars such as Harvard’s Yochai Benkler, turns out to be an interesting subject of study for economic organization theory. …

Law And Economics

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Modes of Contractual Governance in an On-Demand Service Economy
Modes of Contractual Governance in an On-Demand Service Economy
Law And Economics

10 min read

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