Marco Santori Joins Blockchain Team as Global Policy Counsel
Blockchain announced today that it has retained New York business attorney and commercial litigator Marco Santori as its global policy counsel. Santori, who recently also joined the firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, told The Wall Street Journal that Blockchain "espouses the values that bitcoin is meant to advance", and that such values helped motivate his decision to work more formally with the company. The move can also be seen an indication of bitcoin's maturing regulatory environment. Blockchain CEO Nic Cary told CoinDesk that many regulators are beginning to thoughtfully analyze....
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Leading bitcoin wallet and information service provider Blockchain (also known as Blockchain.info) has brought aboard attorney Marco Santori into a Global Policy Counsel position. From the company's announcement this week: Blockchain team as its Global Policy Counsel. Marco is a seasoned technology transactions attorney and a recognized authority on the law of digital currencies. As Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation's Regulatory Affairs Committee and in private practice, he has served as a longtime advisor to and representative of the Bitcoin industry. Marco has spoken and conducted....
Leading law firm Pillsbury has announced that digital currency expert Patrick Murck is joining its team as the special counsel in the firm's Washington, DC office. Murck is a name to reckon with in the field of digital currency and is a former Executive Director and General Counsel of the Bitcoin Foundation and is also one of its founders. He will join the Pillsbury's Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Focus Team under the leadership of Marco Santori. Murck expressed excitement over his inclusion and also said that "Pillsbury has been a leader in addressing the legal issues around....
On Tuesday morning, the New York Law School hosted the Bitcoin Law conference, drawing entrepreneurs and enthusiasts from the New York City bitcoin community, as well as many of its own aspiring lawyers. The event was moderated and largely organized by Houman Shadab, a law professor and director of the school's Center for Business and Financial Law. Shadab has researched bitcoin and cryptocurrencies extensively, as well as hedge funds, derivatives, securitization and commercial transactions. Earlier this month he spoke to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission on behalf of the bitcoin....
Someone apparently told cryptocurrency to "go back to Jersey," and the advice seems to have been taken. The New Jersey State Legislature is slated to hold a hearing on digital currency. Among the topics to be discussed include safety and consumer protection, applications, the advantages of cryptocurrency and current regulation practices regarding usage. Assembly Democratic spokesman Tom Hester explains how the idea to hold the hearing first came about: "Chairman Coughlin wanted to do a hearing on digital currency because he realized that the role of digital currency is expanding in society....
Blockchain and digital currency lawyers Marco Santori and Patrick Murck have officially left Pillsbury Winthrop to join Cooley LLP. The move effectively finds two of the industry's most experienced legal veterans moving their practices to a new firm, headquarted in Palo Alto, California. (Santori joined Pillsbury in September 2014, while Murck was added to its roster in October 2015). Both Murck and Santori also previously served with the Bitcoin Foundation, the long-troubled trade association dedicated to the open-source technology. Notably, Murck held a role as executive director, while....