Category: Digital Currencies
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Checkmate on Privacy: Garry Kasparov on Security & Blockchain
In the speaker’s green room at the Consensus conference, Garry Kasparov, Chess Grandmaster, and I caught up. This covers all things cryptocurrency and his belief in the importance of the technology to create more freedom for people across the world, especially in areas with more authoritarian regimes. It is a fascinating talk which touches on…
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Tech Snippets Today – CahillNXT at Consensus with Joseph Raczynski
What impact might current legislation have on digital assets? How can someone navigate through the complexities of cryptocurrency rules and regulations? This was an insightful conversation with two gurus of digital assets from CahillNXT, at the law firm Cahill. I met with Samson A. Enzer and Lewis Rinaudo Cohen at Consensus in Austin recently. They…
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Crypto Prediction 2024: Bitcoin ETF Will Finally Legitimize Bitcoin, then Ethereum, then Everything Else
My four favorite topics to speak about and write on over the last decade are blockchain, AI, Legal/FinTech and their future. Each had a separate narrative, but they are increasingly becoming interconnected. For this prediction post, I am focused on Crypto and how it is about to explode into the mainstream, in a far more…
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Tech Snippets Today – Hatchfi – Carlos Feliciano II – CEO & Founder, with Joseph Raczynski
One of the challenges with digital assets these days is building out the plumbing. In other words, creating the infrastructure which allows for everyone to take advantage of these new systems. It is a lot of work to do behind the scenes. Hatchfi, and its Founder and CEO, Carlos Feliciano is hard at work connecting…
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Tech Snippets Today – Consensus 2022 – Josh Swihart – SVP Zcash
At the Austin Convention Center at the Consensus 2022 conference, Josh Swihart, SVP of Marketing at Zcash, and I caught up. This covers off on the original privacy token built in the spirit of Bitcoin but with ZKP properties for privacy and security. For more information, please visit the following: https://www.josephraczynski.com https://joetechnologist.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/joerazz
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5 questions about the environmental impact of crypto-mining
Originally published on Thomson Reuters Insights by Gina Jurva, with Joseph Raczynski. Is the act of mining for cryptocurrency damaging to the environment? We asked our resident technologist to assess this emerging landscape Two hot words in the corporate and financial worlds today seem to be cryptocurrencies and ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance issues) — yet, are the…
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DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) and Regulation
Originally published on Cryptos on the Rise. A DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) is a revolutionary change in the manner that people and businesses can organize. Leveraging blockchain technology, it is a decentralized model of control and governance. The essence of a DAO is transparency, clarity of rule, and process driven decisions – primarily utilizing smart…
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Top 10 err.. 16 LegalTech Talks of 2021! Now available!
The list is out! Last year was an amazing one for LegalTech talks and thought leadership. I presented over 70 times on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, AI, Workflow, and the Legal Platform. It was also a fascinating year where edgy concepts entered the LegalTech space, including the Metaverse and NFTs. In all likelihood, these will continue to…
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Podcast: The Hearing – Houman Shadab, Professor of Law NYLS
From the producers… Bitcoin: bringing FOMO since 2013. What would your scream sound like if you had dismissed Bitcoin as a joke in your law class in 2013 at $100 dollars – when it sits at $60,000 today? Joe’s guest this week is Houman Shadab, the Director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology…
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Digital Nomads – Future of Work Discussion
This is a deep dive on the future of work around the world and the technology trends that impact them.
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The impact of blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs on the legal industry with Joseph Raczynski
It was a ton of fun recording this podcast with the omniscient and ever engaging Joseph Gartner at the ABA Center for Innovation – (full transparency, I sit on the Council). With Joey’s new role as Director and Counsel, we chatted all things #blockchain, #cryptocurrencies, and #NFTs and their impact on the legal industry. It is fantastic to be a part of a group…
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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): Asset ownership via blockchain rockets into legal
In a two-part series, we will look at Non-Fungible Tokens, explaining what they are and how they will impact numerous industries; and how decentralized finance (DeFi) is critical to understanding NFT’s importance within the legal industry. Originally published on the Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski Welcome to the early days of where blockchain goes mainstream,…
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Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Needs to Prove Itself, Expert Says
Published on Lifewire Written by Michelai Graham – Interview with Joseph Raczynski Facebook is scaling back its ambitious plans to move into the cryptocurrency sector while users on the platform aren’t showing much confidence in the site’s new addition. The media giant will likely launch its smaller scale Libra cryptocurrency project as soon as January.…
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Podcast: The Hearing – Doug Pepe – Partner – Joseph Hage Aaronson LLC
From the producer: You may have watched as Mark Zuckerberg explained the internet to Congress in a way that felt a bit unnecessary. Well, this episode is sort of the opposite of that. Joe Raczynski is joined by legal and mathematical macroeconomics genius Doug Pepe, to take us through blockchain, tokens and cryptocurrency in a…
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Will COVID-19 Make Cash Obsolete?
Originally published on the Legal Executive Institute. By Gina Jurva – Joseph Raczynski Is the COVID-19 pandemic more quickly moving the world to a cashless society? One where almost all financial transactions are not conducted with physical banknotes or coins, but rather through the transfer of digital information via a smartphone? Thomson Reuters technologist and…
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Video: Generate 2018 – Blockchain & Legal
What does the future of blockchain look like in the Legal industry. See this overview with special insights from Kleros on how dispute resolution might be enabled through this technology.
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Forum Magazine: Blockchain’s Promise – Verifying Value One Block at a Time
Originally published in Forum Magazine by Joseph Raczynski Blockchain technology is truly transformative, impacting almost every industry. Over the next decade, this technology will significantly transmute the legal landscape as well – a process that has already begun. Blockchain was initially considered a ridiculous notion – the idea of a digitized ledger beholden to no single…
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Podcast: The Hearing With Kevin Poulter & Joseph Raczynski – Future Legal
Episode 2 of THE HEARING is now live! In episode 2 of The Hearing Podcast Kevin Poulter speaks to futurist Joseph Raczynski on #legaltech #AI #blockchain and the future of the robot lawyer. Listen now and subscribe to #thehearingpodcast on: iTunes – https://tmsnrt.rs/2swyzmz Spotify – https://tmsnrt.rs/2kOOpVw SoundCloud – https://tmsnrt.rs/2Js4deI
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How to Launch an ICO Token on Ethereum in 90 Minutes
By Joseph Raczynski So you want to have your own cryptocurrency, eh? It is surprisingly not too cumbersome to create. If you have some very basic coding skills, general understand of a digital wallet, and the ability to follow point by point instructions, this should take about 90 minutes. I will guide you through the…
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MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain Busts Open New Thinking
By Joseph Raczynski Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab – Cambridge MA – October 2017 – In one of the more unique and unusual conferences I have participated, the inaugural MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain was a meeting of 200 minds from across academia, law firm, and corporations big and small. It included IBM Watson as…
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Exploring Blockchain Proof of Concepts in Deployments and use Cases in the Finance Industry
By Joseph Raczynski October 2017 – Blockchain 360 IoT Conference – InterContinental New York Times Square – An esteemed panel took the stage to discuss the state of the union surrounding proof of concepts in the financial industry. The focus of the six; to delve into what is working with blockchain, what is not, and…
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Blockchain, a Disruptive Force Now Impacting the Legal Industry
Originally published in LegalBusinessWorld By Joseph Raczynski Blockchain, a Disruptive Force Now Impacting the Legal Industry Defining the technology and citing real world examples in Legal Basics of Blockchain We are at the precipice of transformative change in nearly every industry. Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is the cornerstone of this rapidly evolving new era…
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Blockchain Podcast from the British Legal Technology Forum 2017
Legal Technology and Blockchain. How I anticipate this will impact the legal industry.
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ILTACON 2016: When Will Blockchain and Smart Contracts Be Important in Legal?
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — If someone had told you in 1993 that the Web would be integral to your life today, would you have believed them? Well, the discussion around blockchain technology at ILTACON 2016 harkened back to that same scenario of the early ‘90s. This is a reboot, where another new technology will revolutionize…
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ILTACON 2016: Re-Imagining Legal Technology for the 21st Century
So reverberated the words of Mike Walsh a Futurist/CEO of Tomorrow, across an audience of more than 3,000 legal professionals at ILTACON 2016, a four-day conference that centers on the intersection of technology and the legal industry.
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ILTACON 2016: Looking into the Future & Building the Exponential Law Firm
At ILTACON 2016, Rohit Talwar, CEO of Fast Future, spoke about the disruption in the legal industry occurring around us and more precisely which technologies will have the largest impact on law firms in the near future.
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Law Firm and Corporate Cybersecruity Presentation – UMB
By Joseph Raczynski Recorded at the University of Maryland, Baltimore during the “Cybersecruity and You” morning session. Discussed is the current landscape of cybersecurity at law firms and corporations, the primary issues these organizations are finding and general awareness of what is happening.
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Blockchain Has Arrived in Legal: Important Observations from Consensus 2017
By Joseph Raczynski Originally published in The Legal Executive Institute NEW YORK — There was a real moment of inflection recently for me in how I think about the coupling of the legal industry and Blockchain. Having been involved in Bitcoin since 2011 and an evangelist on the topic with dozens of talks in the U.S.…
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Building Our Blockchain Future (Part 3) – Beyond Bitcoin – Blockchain and the Legal Impact
By Joseph Raczynski This is the third and final post in a series about blockchain, an online public ledgering system, and how it will soon significantly impact many aspects of the legal industry. In the first post, I demonstrated the potential and the pitfalls of Bitcoin and its underlining blockchain technology; and in the second…
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Building Our Blockchain Future (Part 1) – Passage through Mt. Gox
The intent of this post is to show the marvels and the pitfalls of Bitcoin and its underlining blockchain technology. My personal account shared below is an experience with the currency beginning five years ago until today and the subsequent posts will embark on a legal discussion of the real magic behind Bitcoin, blockchain. Blockchain…
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On the Edge of Law Firm Technology
By Joseph Raczynski Over the previous three years at ILTA, one of the most popular sessions has been “What’s That? New and Cool Technologies”. This year was no different. A capacity crowd of legal technologists listened to the witty foursome of Jeffrey Brandt of PinHawk LLC, Mark Manoukian of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter, Beau…