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Crypto-assets and fintech start-ups on divorce
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Andrzej Bojarski 36 Family
A decade ago hardly anyone had heard of cryptocurrencies. However when Bitcoin soared to a record high value of nearly $20 000 in 2017 in the process making some early investors in Bitcoin into multi-millionaires almost everyone became aware of Bitcoin. Family lawyers in particular have become conscious of how the somewhat shadowy and entirely intangible nature of cryptocurrencies can be used to hide assets or to move them out of reach.
However few practitioners have yet come to appreciate the wider applications for the same blockchain technology on which cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are built. Blockchain technology is spawning a huge variety of ‘crypto-assets’ and ‘smart contracts’ which have the potential to revolutionise the worlds of commerce and finance. Many start-up companies (usually staffed by smart youngsters with physics PhDs) are seeking to develop and exploit this technology. Those companies often raise funding by way of Initial...
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