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55 Tex. Int'l L. J. 373 (2019-2020)
Do Blockchain Technologies Make Us Safer? Do Cryptocurrencies Necessarily Make Us less Safe?

handle is hein.journals/tilj55 and id is 403 raw text is: Do Blockchain Technologies Make Us Safer? Do Cryptocurrencies Necessarily Make Us Less Safe? SARAH JANE HUGHES* Abstract This essay is based on a presentation made on January 24, 2020 at the invitation of the Texas Journal of International Law and the Strauss Center for National Security at the University of Texas. That presentation focused on the two questions mentioned in the title of this essay - Do Blockchain Technologies Make Us Safer? And Do Cryptocurrencies Necessarily Make Us Less Safe? The essay presents answers to the two questions: yes and probably yes. This essay begins with some level-setting on diferent types of blockchain technologies and of cryptocurrencies, and gives some background materials on global and national responses to certain cryptocurrencies, such as El Petro sponsored by Venezuela's PDVSA and Facebook's Libra. Sarah Jane Hughes is the University Scholar and Fellow in Commercial Law at the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. She served as the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Regulation of Virtual-Currency Businesses Act (2017) and the Uniform Supplemental Commercial Law for the Uniform Regulation of Virtual-Currency Businesses Act (2018). Support for this paper came from the Maurer School of Law and from the Program on Financial Regulation & Technology, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University's Antonin Scalia School of Law. Research for this essay was completed on January 21, 2020. Professor Hughes thanks the editors of the Texas International Law Journal and the Strauss Center for International Law and Security at the University of Texas for the invitation to participate in their January 2020 conference. Commenters included Professos Thomas Vartanian and Robert Ledig of the Antonin Scalia School of Law, Julie Hill of the University of Alabama Law School, Lawrence J. Trautman of Western Carolina University- College of Business;Elizabeth Rosenberg, Center for New American Security; Peter A. Wayner, technology author and programmer; Brian Brooks, formerly of Coinbase, Inc.; and Richard Levin of Polsinelli, LLP. Despite their helpful comments, she claims all errors in this essay are my own. 373

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