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Can Blockchain Participants Act in Restraint of Trade?
In this edition of his Blockchain Law column, Robert A. Schwinger discuses a recent magistrate judge ruling in a dispute over actions taken by various parties in connection with a cryptocurrency "fork", which addressed the question of whether those parties' conduct constituted anticompetitive activity barred by federal antitrust law.
May 24, 2021 at 12:45 PM
17 minute read
Blockchain technology applications involve a number of different players interacting with one another as they play specific roles in the blockchain ecosystem. But because blockchain technology is still relatively new, the law still is not well developed regarding many aspects of how these players may—or must not—interact with one another as they perform these roles.
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