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I have been invited by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and the European Leadership Network (ELNET) to join Karl-Heinz Paqué, Carsten Ovens, Daniela Oliel 🎗️, Dr. Sophie Chung and Britta Sophie Weck next week to talk about Israel as a startup nation and what Berlin and Germany can learn from Israel.
The event will be hosted at Betahaus on the 15th of October at 6.30 pm. Participation is free. Registration needed.
In October, I was invited by Sergey Lagodinskyto discuss the geopolitical dimension and effects of technological competition with Dr. Janka Oertel and Dr. Dimitrios Argirakos at the Europa Haus in Berlin. Even in the preliminary discussion, the panelists quickly agreed on what has been lacking in Europe in recent years. In recent years, Europe and Germany have rested too much on their own (economic) dominance in the tailwind of US and US-influenced rule-based globalization and must now enter the competition more confidently.
In my contributions, I have repeatedly emphasized that regulation alone will not take us forward. The paper-based financial system in particular will lose influence in the competition between systems in the long term and the new financial world will be increasingly determined by code. If Europe wants to maintain its position as an economic power, it needs innovation and we must offer the world a reliable financial infrastructure that is based on the rule of law and, above all, open.
The digital age is not determined by legislators, but by the code that is written and used.
In the last few months, I had the privilege of being the editor-in-chief of the focus issue of Rethinkinglaw on the topic of my heart and dissertation, DAOs. Now the issue is finally finished and I am really a little bit proud of the result.
My goal was to give the general legal public a deep insight into how this new form of organization works, to present actual use cases, and not just to address the often abstract legal problems. Thanks to excellent contributions by Markus Büch, Kai Kremer, Dr. Biyan Mienert and Florian Glatz, among others, I believe this has been achieved.
By the way, readers will also learn from Benjamin Strasser what the German government is planning to digitize corporate law and get an incredibly exciting insight into the work of a crypto lawyer in an interview with Silke Noa.
On the cover you see numerous Jerrys trying to buy an NBA team together. What exactly Jerrys are and why they want to buy an NBA team, you can read in the interview with KrauseHouse creator Commodore.
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Did you know that RT is the second most shared Spanish-language “information source”?
In my guest commentary for the FNF EU I identify a Propaganda Dilemma for democracies. While authoritarian states brazenly spent money to spread their false narratives at home and abroad, our values of free press and media make it almost impossible to match the messaging or deal with the lies imprinted on our open societies. I´ve suggested four steps the West should take to counterattack the Russian disinformation ecosystem.
You can read the article for free here.
Wieso gibt es Bitcoins, was ist eine Blockchain und brauchen wir einen digitalen Euro?
Gemeinsam mit Sven Hilgers habe ich für die Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit ein Papier zu digitalen Währungen und der Zukunft unseres Geld verfasst. Wir zeichnen im Papier die Entwicklung rund um Bitcoin der letzten Jahre nach und skizzieren dabei die Entstehung der verschiedenen digitalen Währung in vier Wellen. Das Papier soll als Informationsgrundlage für Entscheider dienen und die Grundlage für die weitere Diskussion über den digitalen Euro und die Regulierung von Kryptowährungen bilden.
Das Papier könnt ihr hier kostenlose runterladen.