Lawyers on the Block

In this episode of the Lawyers on the Block podcast, Roman Kubiak and Kieran Forsyth discuss the new guidelines set out by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for marketing crypto assets.

In this episode of Lawyers on the Block, Roman Kubiak and Kieran Forsyth look at how scammers are able to steal your cryptocurrencies, the types of scams out there, including the Alfa-Crypx / Alpha-Crypx scam, and, crucially, what can you do if you have been a victim of a crypto scam.

In this podcast Lawyers on the Block are joined by David Conway, an accountant at Crowe UK LLP, to make sense of the key tax concerns in relation to cryptocurrency and digital assets.

In this episode made up of two parts, Roman and Kieran discuss the remaining top legal cases in the crypto and digital asset space of 2022.

In this set of two podcasts, Roman and Kieran discuss the top five Crypto and Digital Asset litigation cases of 2022.

This week’s podcast from Lawyers on the Block looks at the collapse of FTX, the tumultuous event which occurred towards the end of last year with shockwaves still being felt. We look at what FTX and Alamada Research were doing and how the collapse started and ended. 

In this episode, Roman and Kieran discuss what happens if someone steals your private key while holding Crypto. They also discuss Satoshi Nakamoto, the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin and a major craze in the 17th century which led to the first ever recorded asset bubble.

Roman and Kieran discuss the issue of Electronic Wills in this episode, as they argue whether or not they can offer the same protection as standard wills, with the emergence of new technologies.

What do you do when you have been rug pulled, but you don't know who did it? What court has jurisdiction and how can they serve documents to unknown people? Roman and Kieran discuss the D'Aloia case where a UK court authorised the service of court documents via NFT air drop. 

How best can you secure your crypto? Do crypto markets need increased centralisation and stronger regulation to protect investors? Is a Central Bank Digital Currency or CBDC the best way to go about protecting investors? These are the questions we asked a Global Cyber Security Adviser from eSET, Jake Moore in this week's episode of the Lawyers on the Block Podcast.

In this episode we look at smart contracts and in particular ‘smart legal contracts’. At their most basic, smart contracts are coded agreements which do not require a middleman to monitor them. We discuss what they are, how they can be used, how they are being used now, their pros and cons, and what the future looks like for them.