Jerry Brito Leads Task Force of Lawyers Focusing on Blockchain

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39 points·dustinmoris··6 comments

Who are these people, and are there any concrete examples of the use case for them? The article seems very speculative and forward-looking without detail.

http://www.dcldc.org/

>The DCLDC will advance its important mission through pro bono attorney referrals to those who cannot afford legal services and the submission of amicus briefs on key issues.

There are lots of applications of blockchain tech and the law. For example, property registers relating to land transactions are an obvious use case.

Likewise smart contracts. I wrote an article about this in the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland which you may find interesting: http://www.journalonline.co.uk/Magazine/61-2/1021297.aspx

Both of those are extremely speculative. I can see the potential for attracting funding using the buzzword "blockchain", of course.

Agreed they're speculative - I'm just pointing out potential applications. I'm sure there will be a legal usage of it at some point though.

> 50 Legal Experts Join Forces to Protect Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Participants

Section heading, more informative. The lawyers aren't "focusing on blockchain", they're focusing on legal issues related to applications of the blockchain concept that are, currently, sitting in fuzzy legal territory.

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