Over the past few years, cryptocurrencies have exploded in popularity and in number, driven in large part by the phenomenal price growth of Bitcoin and Ethereum. In this short series, we’ll provide an overview of five essential things for legal practitioners to know about cryptocurrency, including: what it is, how it works, why people use it, what’s happening legally, and what the discovery implications are. We begin in Part 1 with what it is.

Over the past few years, cryptocurrencies have exploded in popularity and in number, driven in large part by the phenomenal price growth of Bitcoin and Ethereum. In this short series, we’ll provide an overview of five essential things for legal practitioners to know about cryptocurrency, including: what it is, how it works, why people use it, what’s happening legally, and what the discovery implications are. Part 2 discusses how it works and why it’s used.

Over the past few years, cryptocurrencies have exploded in popularity and in number, driven in large part by the phenomenal price growth of Bitcoin and Ethereum. In this short series, we’ll provide an overview of five essential things for legal practitioners to know about cryptocurrency, including: what it is, how it works, why people use it, what’s happening legally, and what the discovery implications are. Part 3 reviews legal activity and discovery implications.