Shaping the law of the future
The use of digital currencies such as bitcoin is changing the way we do business. Banks and notaries are no longer necessary thanks to the technology behind bitcoin: the blockchain, a huge online database in which all transactions are carried out. But what are the legal consequences of this? Mathieu Paapst is researching the legal consequences of large-scale IT applications in our lives, in order to think about how laws can be shaped in the future.
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- Transacties zonder tussenkomst van derden, hoe zit dat juridisch? (Transactions without third-party involvement: how does that work legally speaking?; in Dutch only)
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