Continuing Education Information Sheet

• Explain consensus protocols and how decentralized networks reach agreement
• Describe digital signatures, public/private keys, and how blockchain transactions work
• Understand mining, incentives, and network ecosystems
• Identify legal implications of governance, forks, and collective action in blockchain

Intended audience: Attorneys and finance-sector professionals working with cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Level: intermediate

Prerequisites: Part 1 of this two-part series recommended.

• Daniel B. Garrie, Founder, Law & Forensics; Neutral at JAMS; Faculty at Harvard

  Law & Forensics LLC · JAMS · Harvard · Rutgers Law School · Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare

  Daniel B. Garrie is the founder and executive managing partner of Law & Forensics LLC, a boutique cybersecurity and forensic engineering firm he co-founded in 2008. He serves as a neutral, arbitrator, and forensic special master at JAMS, focusing on cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and complex technology disputes, and holds faculty appointments at Harvard and Rutgers Law School. A patented software inventor and prolific author, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare and a widely cited authority on computer forensics, eDiscovery, and cyber litigation.

• David A. Cass, Senior Partner, Law & Forensics; Adjunct Faculty, Harvard & Rutgers Law

  Law & Forensics LLC · Harvard · Rutgers Law School · Global Cyber Institute

  David A. Cass is a senior partner at Law & Forensics LLC, where he leads the Cryptocurrency and Digital Banking Practice and is a member of the Cybersecurity and Forensics Practice. His background spans financial services regulation, cryptocurrency, digital assets, blockchain, and cloud, including service as a lead regulator at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as CISO and Global Partner of IBM's Cloud Security Service unit. He teaches as adjunct faculty at Harvard and Rutgers Law School and is a faculty member at the non-profit Global Cyber Institute.

• Tiffany Smith, Partner and Co-Chair, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Working Group, WilmerHale

  WilmerHale

  Tiffany J. Smith is a partner at WilmerHale and Co-Chair of the firm's Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Working Group, advising broker-dealers, financial institutions, crypto platforms, NFT issuers and platforms, Web3 companies, payment platforms and investment firms. Her work covers crypto and digital asset regulation, fintech and broker-dealer regulation. She served as a witness at a House Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence hearing on crypto market structure. She holds a J.D. with honors from The George Washington University Law School and a BBA from The George Washington University, and is admitted in the District of Columbia and New York. At Legal Cyber Academy she teaches on blockchain and cryptocurrency fundamentals and SEC cryptocurrency enforcement.

• Nick Rotchadl, General Counsel, Wyoming Division of Banking

  Nick Rotchadl served as General Counsel of the Wyoming Division of Banking, the state agency at the center of Wyoming's digital asset banking framework. The Division charters special purpose depository institutions and supervises digital asset custody, making it one of the first U.S. banking regulators to build a supervisory regime for cryptocurrency, and his work there included identifying the areas where the Division was required to write rules. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches in the crypto and blockchain series on the technology and the regulatory challenges it presents.

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