Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

News: not Craig Wright’s bitcoins, how Tether flows, Goldman Sachs spurns Bitcoin, Calibra is now Novi

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On May 31,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: bitclave , bitcoin , bitfinex , calibra , cas piancey , craig wright , cryptokitties , dapper labs , dave kleiman , david marcus , distributed denial of secrets , facebook , flipside crypto , free ton , goldman sachs , gram , handshake , ico , ira kleiman , libra , links , mark zuckerberg , meta 1 , namebase , nba , newton , novi , paxful , sec , somethingawful , telegram , tether , ton , ton chinese community

“Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn’t have the keys used to sign this message.”
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News: DRM on JPEG images on the blockchain, BlockFi user data breached, TornadoCash mixer goes full DAO, the plant cuttings asset bubble

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On May 21,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: accenture , adam back , atari , binance , bitcoin manipulation abatement , bitmex , block.one , blockchain , blockchain association , blockfi , bma , coinmarketcap , cryptolab , defend crypto , drm , eos , fincen , francis pouliot , ftx , galaxy digital , grayscale , hive , ibm , ico , jpeg , justin sun , libra , links , michael novogratz , myanmar , robert werner , satoshi nakamoto , sec , steem , tornadocash

If you could put two flies crawling up a wall on the blockchain, I’m pretty sure crypto day traders would bet on fly futures.
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Telegram ICO: most Russian investors take 72% payout, Telegram takes $500m of loans

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On May 16,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: anatoly kryazev , exante , gram , ico , qiwi , russia , saft , sergey solonin , telegram

Pavel Durov’s ICO plan went badly enough that Telegram Messenger itself might be affected.
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News: 9 billion tethers, Reddit tokens, Kik is doomed, Singapore joins Libra, China’s CBDC — and J. K. Rowling asks about Bitcoin

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On May 15,2020
Comments: 5
Tags: alliance for prosperity , bitfinex , calvin ayre , cbdc , celo , charles sturt university , checkout.com , china , coinbase , cra , craig wright , cryptopia film , david silver , de nederlandsche bank , ecb , eos , ethereum , europe , ey , facebook , finance magnates , frederick pye , gemini , giancarlo devasini , harm van den dorpel , ico , investopedia , jacob kostecki , jk rowling , jpmorgan chase , kik , kin , left gallery , li lihui , libra , links , martin walker , massive adoption , netherlands , paradigm , paul tudor jones , podcast , preston byrne , qbtc.u , quadrigacx , reddit , ripple , saft , sec , singapore , slow ventures , stuart hoegner , stuart levey , switzerland , temasek , tezos , the bitcoin fund , xrp , yves mersch

And Investopedia are spammers, and you should remove any links to their site.
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Telegram gives up on the Telegram Open Network — and Free TON launches

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On May 14,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: free ton , gram , ico , saft , sec , telegram , tokenbox , ton , vladimir smerkis

The Durovs cry themselves to sleep on a not-as-big-as-hoped bed made of rather less money than they’d anticipated.
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Me on screen — “New Kids on the Blockchain” today, Finance Magnates web panel Monday, “Cryptopia” next Saturday

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On May 02,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: cryptopia film , film , finance magnates , new kids on the blockchain

Star of screen, if not stage.
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News: Purse.io shuts down, Chinese CBDC test, new Libra member Heifer, North Korea does not dump its bitcoins

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Apr 26,2020
Comments: 2
Tags: amazon , animal crossing , bakkt , bitcoin , bitnomial , bittr , blockchain association , cbdc , cftc , chainalysis , china , craig wright , dave kleiman , dropil , georgios konstantopoulos , ico , ireland , jonathan james , kik , kin , kodakone , libra , links , monero , netherlands , north korea , pagofx , phuncoin , phunware , purse , reddit , rubygems , santander , sec , sylvia garcia , united states , vitalik buterin , zack voell

Zack Voell from CoinDesk fights the good fight to destroy the crypto markets, and do Buttcoin — and North Korea — proud.
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The dForce and Hegic DeFi exploits, and why Smart Contracts are bad

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Apr 26,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: compound , dan guido , defi , dforce , hegic , smart contract , trail of bits , uniswap

The problem with DeFi is not the technology, though that’s bad too — it’s that people are greedy and foolish.
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Me on Finance Magnates podcast with Rachel McIntosh — Libra, CBDCs, the Bitcoin trading market

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Apr 22,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: bitcoin , cbdc , finance magnates , podcast , rachel mcintosh , trading

I recorded a video podcast with Rachel McIntosh from Finance Magnates yesterday, and it’s up already!
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Facebook’s Libra: national currency tokens, a new white paper — what this means

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Apr 16,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: facebook , libra

Facebook is slowly being dragged, kicking and screaming, to running Libra like an ordinary, compliant payments processor — PayPal, but it’s Facebook — or Libra won’t be allowed to exist.
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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

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