David Gerard

Breaker Mag is shutting down

Some reminiscences on Breaker, one of the crypto media crop of 2018.
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Bitfinex, Tether and the NY Attorney General: EVERYTHING IS FINE

A roundup of the latest news in Tether’s New York legal troubles, and that inconvenient near-billion-dollar hole in their accounts.
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What ordinary people think a “blockchain” is — and the weasel term “Blockchain Technology”

Ordinary people project all manner of things onto the word “blockchain.” This leaves them wide-open to con men.
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Quick update: New York attorney general sues Bitfinex, $850m hole in Tether reserves

The good news for Bitcoin never stops!
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News: Quadriga Ponzis, NY AG sues Bitfinex, no “institutional” investors, Petro on sale, and the football

“The last I looked our coin had joined the Triple Egg club, trading at something like $0.0009.”
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Medical records, but on the blockchain — the history of a bad idea

Patients having some sort of “control” over their own medical data is a perennial favourite blockchain pitch. We may have found the source.
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News: Craig Wright sues to be called Satoshi, Kleiman deposition, Satoshi’s Treasure, Quadriga, EOS centralises

All of this is, of course, good news for Bitcoin SV.
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Telegram TON ICO: network in beta, the Gram sales agreement, new partner Wirecard

What do Telegram have to provide by October 2019? And why partner with Wirecard, who are currently trying to get Financial Times journalists prosecuted for writing about them?
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The AlphaSmart Neo 2 keyboard — for writing without Twitter

I got a new gadget! Let’s see if it helps.
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Decrypt — Crypto: A movie review

My review of Crypto (2019) is not only the first in the crypto press — it’ll save you watching the film, and entertain you more.
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