David Gerard

JavaScript SecureRandom() isn’t securely random — many old web wallets affected — and the bug was warned of five years ago (UPDATED)

11th April 201812th April 2018 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

If you used a web wallet to generate your keys, check with your author or vendor.

Saifedean Ammous: The Bitcoin Standard — making the Austrian School case for Bitcoin

7th April 201825th May 2020 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

How Bitcoin fits the theology and virtues of Austrian economics — a plea to Austrian School nocoiners to take Bitcoin seriously.

Oh, eMusic, no — don’t go blockchain! Another Kodak moment

6th April 20188th April 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Today’s blockchain post is over on Rocknerd — it’s early dot-com era downloaded music company eMusic taking the final resort of an utterly buggered company.

Debunking ‘But Bitcoin is like the early Internet!’

5th April 20186th June 2022 - by David Gerard - 22 Comments.

Of course it isn’t like the Internet. But this claim keeps coming up. Includes technologies Bitcoin and blockchains are actually comparable to.

News: Me at Intelligence Squared, MailChimp bans crypto, ICOs suing over ad bans, Reddit drops Bitcoin, Bitfinex avoids Petro, Sichuan demolishes hydro, bad blockchain laws, Wall Street not so blockchain

2nd April 201812th April 2018 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

Crypto Fools’ Day is, of course, January 9. In cryptocurrency, every day is January 9.

Synthestech offers “cold transmutation” alchemy on the blockchain. Plus UFOs.

28th March 20186th November 2018 - by David Gerard - 12 Comments.

Did you know that bacteria can transmute copper, iron and tungsten into platinum and iridium? I certainly didn’t. In fact, I still don’t.

News: Krebs on CoinHive, Ledger hardware hack, regulators vs ICOs, Sierra Leone, RIP Mavrodi, JPMorgan, RokoCoin

26th March 20187th November 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

And nothing about Twitter blocking crypto ads, because I posted about that last week.

Woolf University: college courses literally on the Ethereum blockchain

24th March 201822nd August 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Courses will be purchased, and staff paid, in WOOLF tokens. And rather than a costly university administration — boo! hiss! — they’ll have … smart contracts!