153 research outputs found
Ariel - Volume 5 Number 2
Editors
Mark Dembert
J.D. Kanofsky
Entertainment Editor
Robert Breckenridge
Gary Kaskey
Overseas Editor
Mike Sinason
Photographer
Scott Kastner
Staff
Ken Jaffe
Bob Sklaroff
Joseph Sassani
Janet Weis
Ariel - Volume 6 Number 1
Editors
John Lammie
Curt Cummings
Frank Chervenak
J.D. Kanofsky
Mark Dembert
Entertainment
Robert Breckenridge
Joe Conti
Gary Kaskey
Photographer
Larry Glazerman
Overseas Editor
Mike Sinason
Circulation
Jay Amsterdam
Humorist
Jim McCann
Staff
Ken Jaffe
Bob Sklaroff
Halley Faus
Ariel - Volume 5 Number 4
Editors
Mark Dembert
J.D. Kanofskv
Entertainment Editors
Robert Breckenridge
Joe Conti
Overseas Editor
Mike Sinason
Photographer
Scott Kastner
Epistemologist
Gary Kaskey
Staff
Ken Jaffe
Bob Sklaroff
Janet Weish
David Jacoby
Phil Nimoityn
Circulation Editor
Jay Amsterdam
Humorist
Jim Mccan
Ariel - Volume 5 Number 5
Editors
Mark Dembert
J. D. Kanofsky
Entertainment
Robert Breckenridge
Joe Conti
Gary Kaskey
Photographer
Scot Kastner
Overseas Editor
Mike Sinason
Circulation
Jay Amsterdam
Humorist
Jim McCann
Staff
Ken Jaffe
Bob Sklaroff
Janet Welsh
Dave Jacoby
Phil Nimoityn
Frank Chervane
Ariel - Volume 5 Number 1
Editors
Mark Dembert
J.D. Kanofskv
Entertainment Editor
Robert Breckenridge
Gary Kaskey
Editor Emeritus
David A. Jacoby
Photographer
Scott Kastner
Staff
Richard Blutstein
Bob Johnson
John R. Cohn
Joseph Sassani
Ken Jaffe
Bob Sklarof
Coin-Operated Capitalism
This Article presents the legal literature’s first detailed analysis of the inner workings of Initial Coin Offerings. We characterize the ICO as an example of financial innovation, placing it in kinship with venture capital contracting, asset securitization, and (obviously) the IPO. We also take the form seriously as an example of technological innovation, where promoters are beginning to effectuate their promises to investors through computer code, rather than traditional contract. To understand the dynamics of this shift, we first collect contracts, “white papers,” and other contract-like documents for the fifty top-grossing ICOs of 2017. We then analyze how such projects’ software code reflected (or failed to reflect) their contractual promises. Our inquiry reveals that many ICOs failed even to promise that they would protect investors against insider self-dealing. Fewer still manifested such contracts in code. Surprisingly, in a community known for espousing a technolibertarian belief in the power of “trustless trust” built with carefully designed code, a significant fraction of issuers retained centralized control through previously undisclosed code permitting modification of the entities’ governing structures. These findings offer valuable lessons to legal scholars, economists, and policymakers about the roles played by gatekeepers; about the value of regulation; and the possibilities for socially valuable private ordering in a relatively anonymous, decentralized environment
Ariel - Volume 6 Number 4
Editors
Mark Dembert
J.D. Kanofsky
Frank Chervenak
John Lammie
Curt Cummings
Entertainment
Robert Breckenridge
Joe Conti
Gary Kaskey
Photographer
Larry Glazerman
Overseas Editor
Mike Sinason
Humorist
Jim McCann
Staff
Ken Jaffe
Bob Sklaroff
Halley Faust
Jim Burk
Ariel - Volume 6 Number 4 (Alternate Version)
Editors
Mark Dembert
J.D. Kanofsky
Frank Chervenak
John Lammie
Curt Cummings
Entertainment
Robert Breckenridge
Joe Conti
Gary Kaskey
Photographer
Larry Glazerman
Overseas Editor
Mike Sinason
Humorist
Jim McCann
Staff
Kenn Jaffe
Bob Sklaroff
Halley Faust
Jim Burke
Jay Amsterdam
Morton A. Klein
Nancy Redfer
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