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Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
Abstract
How does Bitcoin mine money from 1s and 0s? Through blockchain, a tool for creating secure, decentralized peer-to-peer applications. The technology has been compared to the Internet in impact. But disintermediation—blockchain’s greatest benefit—cuts out oversight along with middlemen. Blockchain and the Law urges the law to catch up.
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“Bitcoin uses blockchain technology to remove the need for financial intermediaries like commercial and central banks, and the technology is ultimately administrated by a peer-to-peer network of users (De Filippi and Wright 2018; De Filippi 2015).”
From The Ethics of Alternative Currencies (2022) · cites this paper as De Filippi and Wright 2018
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Leveraging the Internet of Things and Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management
Rejeb, A., Keogh, J. G., & Treiblmaier, H. (2019) · Future Internet · doi:10.3390/fi11070161 · Cited by 538
The Ethics of Alternative Currencies
Larue, L., Meyer, C., Hudon, M., & Sandberg, J. (2022) · Business Ethics Quarterly · doi:10.1017/beq.2021.52 · Cited by 23
Decentralizing governance: exploring the dynamics and challenges of digital commons and DAOs
Esposito, M., Tse, T., & Goh, D. (2025) · Frontiers in Blockchain · doi:10.3389/fbloc.2025.1538227 · Cited by 31
L'acte administratif algorithmique
Stepanov, A. (2026) · doi:10.70675/adc05be3za62ez4b4fz81e7zabf744e60dbf
Metadata
- Authors
- De Filippi, P., & Wright, A.
- Venue
- Harvard University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2018-08-07
- OpenAlex
- W4213423664
- Cited by
- 453
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 70 · 2025: 96 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 38 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 30
- FWCI
- 59.07
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Social Sciences › Law › Digital Transformation in Law
- Social Sciences › Law › Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
- Keywords
- blockchain, Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, decentralization (distributed systems), peer-to-peer networks, disintermediation, blockchain regulation, digital currency, law and technology
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