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OP Codes and the push to confuse. A certain group of BTC Core developers have their (one day but not in my lifetime) sidechains that will enable OP_Codes that have been left broken in BTC (and...

What is an “Electronic Contract”? When contrasting contractual principles, it is clear that unless a contract is required to be in writing (Columbia Law Review, Apr., 1929 Pp. 497–504; Columbia...

Issues with electronic contracting in relation to Bitcoin The Internet is fundamentally a means of communication. Issues with law that have arisen because of the Internet are thus a result of the...

An introduction to contractual formation Technological developments and the advent of the Internet, and now electronic peer to peer cash have led to new paradigms in international as well as local...

It has been argued that the currency crisis in Asia in the late 90's differed in significant ways to many of the previous crises (Cogman & Dobbs, 2008) and that the countries involved, Thailand,...

We will attempt to show that banks and financial markets offer both complimentary and competing services depending on a range of factors including the clients that they are serving on the type of...

The current bitcoin debate has nothing at all to do with centralisation. As I wrote in my piece on the hijacking of the term ‘node’ we can easily see that any non-mining node is simply a wallet....

Minsky (1975, 1982, 1986) supported the position that stability destabilises. In analysing the development of the economy across the post-war period he proposed a basic theory that captured...

The life-cycle hypothesis is a relatively simple model based on a micro-economic analysis of family spending habits that was developed by Franco Modigliani and Richard Brumberg (1954) in the early...

It’s become quite clear to me that the terminology within bitcoin has been hijacked. The paper is extremely clear about what a node happens to be: [caption id="attachment_16749" align="alignnone"...