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Fri. 09/23 – Are DAO’s NOT A Liability Shield?

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

If DAO’s are a modern, blockchain take on the corporation, I’ve got a big, worrying thing to tell you about them. Apple looks to cozy up to the NFL as Amazon seems to have found immediate success with Thursday Night Football. Fitbit takes a page out of the Oculus playbook, post-acquisition. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Links: CFTC Penalizes Blockchain Protocol $250K, Files Action Against Successor DAO (CoinDesk) Apple to Sponsor the Super Bowl Halftime Show (NYTimes) Amazon Scores Big With First ‘Thursday Night Football’ Game (The Hollywood Reporter) Fitbit will require a Google Account to use new devices and features from 2023 onward (9to5Google) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Sneaky Genius of Apple’s AirPods Empire (Bloomberg) How a Quebec Lithium Mine May Help Make Electric Cars Affordable (NYTimes) Unauthorized Shein boutiques are popping up across Mexico (Rest of World) College Dropout Turns Thiel Fellowship Into a $2 Billion Figma Fortune (Bloomberg) Why Do All These 20-Somethings Have Closed Captions Turned On? (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, September 23rd, 2022.

0:08.2

I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:10.0

If Dow's are a modern blockchain take on the corporation, I've got a big worrying thing to tell you about them.

0:16.0

Apple looks to cozy up to the NFL as Amazon seems to have found immediate success with Thursday night football.

0:23.0

Fit takes a page out of the Oculus Playbook,

0:26.0

post acquisition, and of course,

0:28.0

the weekend long read suggestions.

0:30.0

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:35.4

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has fined blockchain protocol B0X and its team $250,000 for illegal off-exchanged digital asset trading and has filed a

0:49.2

civil action against its successor, the Uki Dow. Now, before your eyes roll back in your head

0:56.5

because you're like, Brian, is this another crypto story that's just blah blah blah

1:00.0

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah I can't even follow it, whatever.

1:03.0

Let me tell you that this is actually a pretty big deal because you know how people form corporations

1:08.6

because one of the benefits of corporations is you're shielded from personal legal liability.

1:14.0

Well, a Dow is like a corporation on the blockchain right,

1:18.0

but the CFTC has effectively said

1:21.0

DALs are not a way to displace or avoid legal liability.

1:26.0

Quoting Robert Bryden on Twitter.

1:28.8

Remember when Dow folks were making very poor choices and we were all wondering if every token holder was in an unregistered

1:35.0

partnership with joint and severe liability.

1:38.0

Well, CFTC appears to think that is how Dals work to end quote

1:43.6

quoting from coin desk.

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