Maybe the most poorly understood feature of blockchain technology is the role of the cryptocurrencies that power them — and as a result, how to fit cryptocurrencies into existing regulatory goals. The most challenging thing about this is that each blockchain protocol is different, meaning that regulators may regulate with…

I was recently asked on a podcast how I went from clerking on the Supreme Court to being a VP of Strategy for Aleo (a blockchain company). …

Recently, the artist Beeple became one of the most valuable living artists by selling a purely digital piece of art for $69.3mm at an auction. Using similar technology, a website called NBA Top Shot has been selling many tens of millions of dollars of digital clips, highlights from past NBA…

(1) This isn’t just cruel and needless; it’s affirmatively harmful for America. These children aren’t just dreamers. They’re soon-to-be achievers. They’re in a demographic that is disproportionately responsible for creating jobs and economic value. (one particularly notable non-partisan study finding that immigrants started more than half of the startups valued…

Like so many people, and as a graduate of UVA, I’m heartbroken about what happened there this past weekend. I don’t know how to understand it — especially the fact that someone was literally killed, that the capacity for human boldness, in a world where we need boldness for so…

(1) I voted for Clinton, but when Trump won, I wanted the best. The best looked something like this: an unorthodox president with a strange combination of qualities that would let him stand up to the Republican party, and stand up to the Democratic party, and push for reforms that…

Thought this was a pretty good editorial by the NYT and it’s an interesting issue. On the one hand, as anyone who has been to law school might know, racial minorities often feel a “public interest burden” — as though doing anything other than working in the public or non-profit…

When the Whitney’s Biennial opened a few weeks ago, the critics came with hands on holsters and left, by and large, pleased, even ecstatic. “Winningly theatrical” (The New Yorker); “an exciting, powerful case for art” (The New York Times); “aesthetics are alive downtown” (The Wall Street Journal). No doubt, the…

Moving Obamacare Forward Obamacare did a lot, but in rough terms, these are its most important features: (1) replacing our previous system — in which uninsured people received no healthcare until they were literally hospitalized, and then hospitals were forced to treat them without compensation — with universal coverage (through…