Authors: Kimberly Burns, Mahdi Shams
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been consistent in its regular messaging to the public on coin and token offerings.
The SEC Chairman, Jay Clayton, provided … Read More
Authors: Mahdi Shams, Tessa Rowland
Blockchain technology is so frequently linked to cryptocurrency that the main street investor may not yet realize the separate potential of distributed ledger technology. Recent proposals … Read More
Authors: Kimberly Burns, Steven Robertson
Bitcoin mining is the process by which transactions on the Bitcoin Network are verified and recorded. Bitcoin miners are paid for their work in new bitcoins. … Read More
Authors: Kimberly Burns, Mahdi Shams
Blockchain mining is the process by which transactions on the blockchain are validated.
Integral to the functioning of cryptocurrency networks such as Bitcoin, blockchain mining involves solving … Read More
Authors: Kimberly Burns, Mahdi Shams
The recent proliferation of initial coin offerings (ICOs) has been fueled, in part, by the proposition that the coins/tokens offered in an ICO are not securities … Read More
Authors: Steven Robertson, Tessa Rowland
An Initial Coin Offering (“ICO”) – also sometimes referred to as an Initial Token Offering – provides a nascent business (typically a startup) with a crowdfunding … Read More
Authors: Kimberly Burns, Mahdi Shams
Blockchain has led to serious consideration of how its decentralized technology can be applied in the finance sector and beyond. In this post we explore three … Read More
Authors: Kimberly Burns, Mahdi Shams
Bitcoin is the world’s first and most well-known cryptocurrency and decentralized payment system.
Its functional basis is the distributed ledger technology known as blockchain through which Bitcoin … Read More
Authors: Kimberly Burns, Mahdi Shams
Blockchain was the new vocabulary word for 2017. Constantly in the news, and on all of our lips, interest in blockchain dramatically increased over the past … Read More
In May of 2016 the Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) launched a market study into technology-led innovation in the Canadian financial services sector, better known among industry players as “FinTech.”
Recognizing that … Read More
