We’ve all likely heard about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, but how about cryptokitties? Apparently, virtual cats can be bought and sold on platforms using blockchain technology, which securely tracks digital transactions. Virtual cats aside, blockchain has tantalizing potential for a number of legal applications, owing to its unique abilities to create records that are resistant to …
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ILTACON Panel Recap – The Promise of Blockchain
Blockchain and distributed ledgers will transform contracts and transactions in finance, banking, insurance, real estate and other industries with complex supply chains. The promise of the distributed nature of blockchain is that it eliminates many costs and risks from large-scale transactions. And it will also create new roles for lawyers capable of understanding the unique …
- August 16, 2017
- Leonard Lee
Jason Thomas joins new Coin Center advisory board
Jason Thomas, manager of Innovation at Thomson Reuters, has joined the advisory board of Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy organization focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies. Based in Washington, D.C., the organization seeks to inform and act as a resource for policy makers and media outlets on digital currency technologies, …
- January 14, 2015
- Alex Cook
Jason Thomas delivers keynote at LegalTech New York
Jason Thomas, manager of Innovation for the Government segment of Thomson Reuters, kicked off LegalTech New York this morning, setting the tone for an exciting week. His keynote, titled “TOR, Bitcoin, Silk Road and the Anonymous Web: Drugs, Bombs and Murder-for-Hire,” had attendees on the edge of their seats at the Midtown New York Hilton …
- February 4, 2014
- Alex Cook
Thomson Reuters speaks at DC event: “Cryptocurrencies: the new coin of the realm?”
With the growing demand for digital (or crypto) currencies since its inception in 2009 with Bitcoin and the recent takedown by government authorities of the illicit online site, SilkRoad, a group of esteemed experts will discuss this intriguing topic at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC on February 11, 2014. One of the presenters …
- January 28, 2014
- Alex Cook