{"id":3943,"date":"2015-10-26T16:46:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2016-04-28T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:55:04","slug":"patrick-murck-on-property-law-and-the-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2015\/10\/26\/patrick-murck-on-property-law-and-the-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Murck on Property Law and the Blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confusion abounds about Bitcoin, and the market technology that helps keep the alternative currency market transparent and stable: Blockchain. Compounding this confusion is the reliance on insufficient analogies used to describe aspects of these systems like &#8220;wallets&#8221;, &#8220;coins,&#8221;\u009d and &#8220;miners.&#8221;  These abstractions gloss over important nuances in how the bitcoin system actually works, and creates a hazard for regulators, policymakers and academics who use these analogies to shape law and policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk Patrick Murck &#8212; Berkman Fellow and Co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation &#8212; unpacks Blockchain and some of the complicated property law issues that it poses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2015-10-20_blockchain\/2015-10-20_blockchain.mp4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2015-10-20_blockchain\/2015-10-20_blockchain.mp4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2015-10-20_blockchain\/2015-10-20_blockchain.ogv\">in ogg for download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info on this event <a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/node\/99137\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confusion abounds about Bitcoin, and the market technology that helps keep the alternative currency market transparent and stable: Blockchain. Compounding this confusion is the reliance on insufficient analogies used to describe aspects of these systems like &#8220;wallets&#8221;, &#8220;coins,&#8221;\u009d and &#8220;miners.&#8221; These abstractions gloss over important nuances in how the bitcoin system actually works, and creates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4080,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}