David Gerard writes the cryptocurrency and blockchain news site Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain. He is the author of the 2017 book Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts and the 2020 book Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money. Until he reinstalled the laptop they were on, he was the proud owner of six Dogecoins. He remains a frequent, if occasionally annoyed, user of Facebook.
As well as being a crypto journalist, David is a retired Unix system administrator, where his job included keeping track of exciting new technologies and advising against the bad ones. He is an award-winning music journalist, and has blogged about music at Rocknerd since 2001. He also writes the AI sceptic blog Pivot to AI and its daily YouTube channel. Originally from Australia, he lives in east London with his family.
Website: www.davidgerard.co.uk
Email: dgerard@gmail.com (best contact method)
Mastodon @davidgerard@circumstances.run
Twitter: @davidgerard
Phone, WhatsApp, Signal: +44 7733 223 584 (please also email)
Book cover artist: Alli Kirkham is a South California artist, illustrator and writer. Her current project is a comic, PunkPuns.
Website: www.punkpuns.com/author
David’s wife, Rose Gerard (Arkady Rose), reviews most of his posts before they go out. They’re vastly improved by a beta reading. Check out Arkady’s music and T-shirts and mugs and prints and stuff!
Book images
Please feel free to use any of these images when writing about me or the books.
- Author photo (credit: Arkady Rose) (JPEG, 1500×2000)
- Also on Wikimedia Commons and reusable under CC by-sa 2.0
- Author photo (credit: Pauline Martindale) (JPEG, 2400×1800)
- Libra Shrugged ebook front cover (JPEG, 2560×1600) by Alli Kirkham
- Libra Shrugged paperback front cover (JPEG, 2550×1640) by Alli Kirkham
- Libra Shrugged paperback front and back covers (JPEG, 2550×3400) by Alli Kirkham
- Libra Shrugged line art (credit: Alli Kirkham);:
- Thumbs down (PNG, 24-bit colour, 2040×1591)
- Smug Money (PNG, black and white, 1 bit per pixel, 1679×1742)
- Dumpster fire (PNG, black and white, 1 bit per pixel, 1070×1315)
- Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain paperback front cover (JPEG, 2550×1640) by Alli Kirkham
- Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain paperback front and back covers (JPEG, 2550×3400) by Alli Kirkham
- Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain ebook front cover (JPEG, 2560×1600) by Alli Kirkham
- Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain line art (credit: Alli Kirkham; PNG, black and white, 1 bit per pixel):
- Tippybot (1179×2140)
- Blockbot (1519×1852)
- Scared Business Guy (883×1323)
- Tulip (952×1866)
- Tulip border (4149×1233)
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