Here is some of my published work. First are scholarly publications, mainly law review articles, and second are a selection of op-eds I published back when op-eds mattered. In addition to the below, I used to also write weekly columns for TIME and Reason.

Scholarly Articles

• The Case for Electronic Cash: Why Private Peer-to-Peer Payments are Essential to an Open Society
  Coin Center (2019).
• State Digital Currency Principles and Framework
  Coin Center (2017). With Peter Van Valkenburg.
• Bitcoin: A Primer for Policymakers
  Mercatus Center (2016). With Andrea Castillo.
• Bitcoin Financial Regulation: Securities, Derivatives, Prediction Markets & Gambling
  16 Columbia Science and Technology Law Review 144 (2014). With Houman Shadab & Andrea Castillo.
• Cryptocurrency
  The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2014). With Eli Dourado.
• An Offer You Can’t Refuse: “Agency Threats” and the Rule of Law
  37 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 553 (2014).
• Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess
  Mercatus Center (2012).
• Regulation: A Primer
  Mercatus Center (2012). With Susan Dudley.
• Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy
  3 Harvard National Security Journal 39 (2011). With Tate Watkins.
• Running for Cover: The BRAC Commission as a Model for Federal Spending Reform
  9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 131 (2010).
• Transparency and Performance in Government
  11 North Carolina Journal of Law & Tech. 161 (2010). With Drew Perraut.
• All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data
  Open Government (Daniel Lathrop & Laurel Ruma, eds., O’Reilly 2010).
• Midnight Regulations and Regulatory Review
  61 Administrative Law Review 163 (2009). With Veronique de Rugy.
• Toward a More Perfect Union: Regulatory Analysis and Performance Management
  8 Florida State Business Law Review 1 (2009). With Jerry Ellig.
• Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency
  9 Columbia Science & Technology Law Review 119 (2008).
• A Tale of Two Commissions: Net Neutrality and Regulatory Analysis
  16 CommLaw Conspectus 1 (2007). With Jerry Ellig.
• Growth in Regulation Slows: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2007 and 2008
  29th Annual Regulators’ Budget Report. With Melinda Warren. June 2007.
• Sending out an S.O.S.: Public Safety Communications Interoperability as a Collective Action Problem
  59 Federal Communications Law Journal 3 (2007).
• Video Killed the Franchise Star: The Consumer Cost of Cable Franchising and Policy Alternatives
  5 Journal on Telecomm. & High Tech. Law 199 (2006). With Jerry Ellig.
• The Spectrum Commons in Theory and Practice
  2007 Stanford Technology Law Review 1 (2007).
• An Orphan Works Affirmative Defense to Copyright Infringement Actions
  12 Michigan Telecomm. & Tech. Law Review 75 (2005). With Bridget Dooling.
• Much Ado about Nothing: The Effects of the Post-Enactment Acquisition Rule in Palazzolo v. Rhode Island
  14 Federal Circuit Bar Journal 543 (2005).
• Relax, Don’t Do It: Why RFID Privacy Concerns Are Exaggerated and Legislation Is Premature
  2004 UCLA Journal of Law & Technology 5 (2004).

Op-Eds

• The SAFT is a Symptom of Regulatory Uncertainty
  CoinDesk, November 13,2017.
• What Bitcoiners Are Doing to Fight Ransomware
  Fortune, June 30, 2017.
• Why Bitcoin Needs Washington to Go Mainstream
  Fortune, June 1, 2017.
• IRS Quest for Coinbase Data Sets Dangerous Precedent
  American Banker, November 29, 2016.
• Let Bitcoin into the campaign
  The Hill, April 10, 2015.
• The Price of Bitcoin Doesn’t Matter Right Now
  WIRED, January 14, 2015.
• Regulators Need to Take It Easy on Bitcoin Startups
  WIRED, March 6, 2014.
• Bitcoin: More than Money
  Reason, December 2013.
• US regulations are hampering Bitcoin's growth
  The Guardian, November 18, 2013.
• Why Regulators Should Embrace Bitcoin
  American Banker, August 21, 2013.
• Cyber-Security: Stand Down, for Now, Congress
  TIME, February 22, 2013.
• Free WiFi for the masses? Not so fast
  Washington Examiner, February 8, 2013.
• Measured Response to a Limited Threat
  The New York Times, October 17, 2012.
• Debate: This house believes that a hyperconnected world is more rather than less secure.
  The Economist, June 26, 2012.
• A Note to Congress: The United Nations Isn’t a Serious Threat to Internet Freedom—But You Are
  The Atlantic, June 19, 2012. With Adam Thierer.
• A Shift Toward Digital Currency
  New York Times, April 4, 2012.
• Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake
  Wired, February 14, 2012. With Tate M. Watkins.
• The Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex
  Reason, August/September 2011. With Tate M. Watkins.
• BRAC the federal budget: Fiscal commission needs real power to cut programs
  The Washington Times, May 28, 2010.
• Cyberattacks: Washington is hyping the threat to justify regulating the Internet
  Christian Science Monitor, April 29, 2010. With Tate M. Watkins.
• Can Congress tweet? Should bloggers care?
  Ars Technica, July 28, 2008.
• Failure to Communicate
  The Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2007.
• Who’s your daddy?
  The Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2006. With Bridget Dooling.