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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

Blockchain and cryptocurrency news and analysis by David Gerard

  • About the author
  • Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: The Book
  • Book extras
  • Business bafflegab, but on the Blockchain
  • Buterin’s quantum quest
  • Dogecoin
  • Ethereum smart contracts in practice
  • ICOs: magic beans and bubble machines
  • Imogen Heap: “Tiny Human”. Total sales: $133.20
  • Index
  • Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money
  • My cryptocurrency and blockchain commentary and writing for others
  • Press coverage: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
  • Press coverage: Libra Shrugged
  • Table of Contents
  • The conspiracy theory economics of Bitcoin
  • The DAO: the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code
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Stablecoins through history — Michigan Bank Commissioners report, 1839

21st January 202122nd January 2021 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

“Gold and silver flew about the country with the celerity of magic; its sound was heard in the depths of the forest, yet like the wind, one knew not whence it came or whither it was going.”

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News: Twitter on the blockchain, the US coup on the blockchain, Gensler in at the SEC, Ripple ex-CTO loses Bitcoin keys

14th January 202116th January 2021 - by David Gerard - 3 Comments.

The price went up in a triangular Fibonacci double-reacharound formation, moderated somewhat by both Makemake and Haumea being in Libra.

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News: Tether TO THE MOON, Bitcoin over 40,000 USDT, more Ripple fallout

10th January 202114th January 2021 - by David Gerard - 3 Comments.

“Working on a Stock-to-Flow model for scarce nuclear waste as a Store of Value. Just need Tether to pump me now and an exchange to list it.”

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2021 in crypto and blockchain: your 100% reliable guide to the future

3rd January 20213rd January 2021 - by David Gerard - 6 Comments.

Crypto: “Take us seriously!”
FinCEN, Treasury: “Sure!”
Crypto: “No, not like that,”

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Today’s addition to the fintech arsenal

25th December 202025th December 2020 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Vital analysis tools for any finance blogger, I assure you.

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News: KodakCoin is dead, XRP RIP, US on stablecoins, seasteading fails again

24th December 202025th December 2020 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

I get my crypto market insights by watching the remote-viewing guy draw pictures of his psychic impressions on YouTube.

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SEC sues Ripple Labs, claiming XRP is a security

22nd December 202022nd December 2020 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

Perhaps they could change the ticker from XRP to RIP.

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Number go up! New Bitcoin peak, exactly three years after the last — what’s happening here

18th December 202019th December 2020 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

John McAfee did promise to eat his own dick if BTC didn’t hit $500,000 by the end of 2020. So maybe this is a last ditch McAfee penis pump.

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Me in BitcoinBlog.de: “Bitcoin piles up so many layers of ideas that are bad or wrong or just don’t work.”

17th December 202021st December 2020 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

Christoph Bergmann of BitcoinBlog.de interviewed me about Facebook’s Libra (now Diem), about Libra Shrugged and about Bitcoin.

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Blockchain Debate Podcast: Diem Is a Glorified PayPal

15th December 2020 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

I’m doing the Blockchain Debate Podcast again on Thursday 17 December! My opponent on this question is Bryce Weiner.

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Table of Contents

  • The conspiracy theory economics of Bitcoin
  • Dogecoin
  • Buterin’s quantum quest
  • ICOs: magic beans and bubble machines
  • Ethereum smart contracts in practice
  • The DAO: the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code
  • Business bafflegab, but on the Blockchain
  • Imogen Heap: “Tiny Human”. Total sales: $133.20

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