...Jose Atiles This article develops a sociolegal analysis of the legislation and tax policies implemented by the US and Puerto Rico (PR) governments to incentivize venture capitalists and cryptocurrency investors to relocate to PR. Specifically, the article looks at the role that Act 60 of 2019...

...Jose Atiles [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 References Albrecht Chad Duffin Kristopher McKay Hawkins Steven Rocha Victor Manuel Morales . 2019 . “ The Use of Cryptocurrencies in the Money Laundering Process .” Journal of Money...

...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...

..., this essay argues that Bukele’s “technical fix” on his nation’s economy is a mere pretext. By leveraging the assets of the broader populace, he pursues the class interests of El Salvador’s new oligarchy. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 cryptocurrency techno...

...-called cryptocurrencies that con- tinue the long tradition of forging alternative nonstate currencies (Moreno 2013). Despite the hope and rhetoric surrounding cryptocurrencies like bit- coin on both the anticapitalist left and libertarian right, claims for the politi- cal and economic potentialities...

... 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...