Veteran Blockchain Lawyers Santori and Murck Join New Law Firm
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....
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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....
Members of the Bitcoin Foundation educated US policy makers about digital currency in a meeting in Washington DC's Capitol Hill yesterday. Peter Vessenes, Patrick Murck and Marco Santori represented the Bitcoin Foundation and spent the day talking protocol, block chain and mining with representatives from the offices of several congressmen and senators. Santori, who is chair of the foundation's Regulatory Affairs Committee, said the attendees raised a number of concerns including privacy and anti-money laundering issues, but most just wanted to know how the protocol works. "The protocol....
Patrick Murck, executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, has joined the board of advisors of BTCJam - a bitcoin-powered peer-to-peer lending network. Celso Pitta, BTCJam's CEO, said: Patrick's legal expertise and bitcoin knowledge are absolutely essential to our mission of expanding access to fairly priced credit everywhere. Murck, who took over as executive director of the foundation following Jon Matonis' resignation last October, has "an impressive legal background" and was recently named one of America's Top 50 Outstanding General Counsels by the National Law Journal. He said: "I....
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....
Wenatchee-based Bitcoin ASIC mining and hosting company HashingSpace Corporation (OTCQB: HSHS) has announced that it has secured the services of Marco Santori, a legal expert on Bitcoin and blockchain. Mr. Santori is a renowned name in the law of Bitcoin, digital currencies, and emerging payments. He lends his services to exchanges, payment processors, institutional miners and other companies making innovative applications of the virtual currency technology, including "Bitcoin 2.0." He is also the Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation's Regulatory Affairs Committee. Timothy Roberts, CEO of....