David Gerard | Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

News: Telegram appeals injunction, Adaptive Capital fails, the story of the Petro

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Mar 30,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: adaptive capital , arya , asx , bakkt , bitcoin , brave , canada , cardano , cftc , cme , cra , etoro , ey , fedor skuratov , gabriel jimenez , gram , ico , iosco , jacob wohl , kik , kin , links , malta , murad mahmudov , nassim nicholas taleb , nicolas maduro , petro , quadrigacx , ransomware , saft , saifedean ammous , sec , telegram , the bitcoin standard , ton , ton community foundation , venezuela , wikipedia , yakov barinsky

Call all you want, but there’s no one home. And you’re not gonna reach my telephone.
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Telegram ICO — SEC prevails, Telegram restrained from issuing Grams

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Mar 24,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: gram , ico , sec , telegram

I strongly suspect that about wraps it up for the Telegram ICO.
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News: Numbers go down, MakerDAO, but mostly coronavirus

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Mar 20,2020
Comments: 2
Tags: australia , bank of england , beanie babies , bitcoin , bitmex , cbdc , coindesk , coinsby , consensus , craig wright , crypto capital , daniel mihai , dave kleiman , defi , ethcc , gary gorton , icobox , lamborghini , links , luke wilson , makerdao , michael novogratz , mining , new york , nikolay evdokimov , ransomware , theranos , tim draper , voatz , winklevoss twins

You can’t buy pies with bitcoins. Or respirators.
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Number go down — Corona-chan loves Bitcoin!

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Mar 13,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: bitcoin , tether , trading

Last chance to buy under $100k!
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News: Coronavirus kills conferences, India un-bans crypto, Bitcoin catches a cold

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Mar 10,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: australia , bis , bitmex , blockchain association , cbdc , cme , coindesk , consensus , dan larimer , decrypt media , defi , fca , frances coppola , geoff golberg , gram , india , iota , jackson palmer , jacob kostecki , jpmorgan chase , justin sun , keyword crypto , libra , links , maximilian fiege , nitron , preston byrne , pwc , ransomware , ravid yosef , rba , reggie fowler , ripple , roman abramovic , sec , steem , stephen palley , tanvi ratna , telegram , tron , ukraine , xrp

“FCA are like the SEC If they forgot to do their job, ever” — Ben Munster
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What your contributions buy: a writing axe I can love

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Mar 06,2020
Comments: 2
Tags: hypa , libreoffice

My computing environment— and the sort of 11″ laptop I hope to get tomorrow.
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The Baseline Protocol — your private business, on the public Ethereum blockchain. Why on earth?

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Mar 05,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: baseline , consensys , enterprise ethereum alliance , ethereum , ey , oasis

And the software that’s the secret sauce in this “enterprise” blockchain product explicitly says not to use it in production.
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Facebook’s Libra national currency plan isn’t new — it was always the fallback plan B

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Mar 04,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: ben maurer , david marcus , facebook , libra , mark zuckerberg

Revamps are in the air, because Libra still can’t get its bad idea past the regulators — the same ones who said “LOL, what on earth, absolutely not” within hours of Libra’s initial announcement last June.
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News: London Football Exchange and Perth Glory, Ripple pays MoneyGram to be its friend, Libra not dead, IOTA still halted, Sweden’s not-a-CBDC

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Feb 29,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: 6pr , accenture , acx , aleksi grym , alliance of american football , bank of canada , bank of england , ben maurer , bitcoiin , bitcoiin2gen , bitfinex , bitin , blockchain australia , cas piancey , cbdc , craig wright , defi , eng , enigma , etf , fcoin , gram , hester peirce , ico , iota , israel , james abbass biniaz , jim aylward , kevin castel , kik , kin , lfe , libra , lightning network , links , london football exchange , moneygram , moonpay , perth glory , reggie fowler , riksbank , ripple , scott hendry , sec , shopify , steven seagal , sweden , tagomi , telegram , tether , tony sage , transferwise , trinity , uganda , valdis dombrovskis , xrp

“I think sophisticated market investors can judge for themselves if 2+2 makes 5, or even 6. As Bruce Springsteen sang, ‘it’s just like Sister Ray said.’”
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Critical journalism in the crypto ice age

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Feb 28,2020
Comments: 2
Tags: breaker , coindesk , decrypt media , modern consensus , the block

The crypto media frantically circles a dwindling pool of promotional cash.
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