... played in attracting blockchain proponents and cryptocurrency investors to PR. By analyzing this tax policy and the governmental official discourses, this article demonstrates that the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors have contributed to the transformation of PR into an offshore financial center...

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...Jillian Crandall; Andrew Mercado Vázquez Increasingly, blockchains and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are posed to impact economic futures and urban governance. New forms of human settlement are emerging as a result of and in service to cryptocurrency, curiously concentrating in areas...

... the second examines the puzzling persistence of racial inequality in Canada. Andrew Mercado Vázquez is an attorney based in Puerto Rico and admitted to practice before the US District Court of Puerto Rico. He currently presides over the Bar Association of Puerto Rico s Commission on Blockchain...

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... of these forms must derive from an under- standing of how they work. In the case of bitcoin, a peer-to-peer database lists a number of units of value, or coins, by unique addresses and assigns them to owners. The database keeps a list, known as the blockchain, of who owns what. The integrity of the system...

... as to how to accomplish such reverse engineering. He describes work with Akseli Virtanen and others at the Economic Space Agency (www.esca.io) on repurposing blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies to create a distributed programmable organi- zation capable of supporting a commons of productive...