Consumers and businesses should be able to control their financial assets and investments through use of electronic cryptocurrency platforms with confidence. What happens, however, when these platforms do not function properly or the platform operators work against their own users? Does the user have any remedies? A series of rulings over recent months provides little encouragement for plaintiffs.
Robert A. Schwinger explores recent developments in this edition of his New York Law Journal Blockchain Law column.
Read the entire article, Blockchain law: When plaintiffs raise claims of platforms behaving badly.
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