E-Signature Laws Provide Legal Framework For Blockchain

By Brian Casey (June 13, 2018, 4:53 PM EDT) -- Today, there is certainly much hype and hope for successful deployments of distributed ledger, or blockchain, technology especially in the cryptocurrency world. There also seems to be a general perception that there is not a clear, or even an existing legal framework for blockchain transactions, be they commercial or consumer in nature. While there are certainly specific laws that can apply to particular types of blockchain-based transactions, such as federal and state securities laws in the case of cryptocurrency initial coin offerings, many blockchainers may not realize that there is an existing legal framework that readily accommodates a broad base of blockchain transactions; these are state, and in a few cases, the federal, electronic signatures and records laws....

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