Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

News: Crypto hedge funds suffer, bankers on crypto’s problems, what good payment networks look like, another Civil news outlet, EOS doesn’t work, PonzICO retrospective

18th June 2018 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

And I am now a waddling duck on SomethingAwful.

That weird World Cup TV ad for Hdac’s Internet of Things on the Blockchain — what’s going on here

16th June 201812th June 2020 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

I was trying to write about Roko’s Basilisk today. Maybe the real Basilisk was the incomprehensible, yet stupidly expensive, Bitcoin fan fiction broadcast to millions of people that we watched along the way.

News: Rip Off Britain on Bitcoin, Tether in depth, Ethereum as non-security, blockchain not up to UK welfare, Apple kicks crypto apps, religion but on the blockchain

15th June 201816th June 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Trust the nice BBC ladies — don’t buy Bitcoin. My goodness, the news in the last couple of days. With lengthy writeups of the details.

How To Launch A Successful ICO, 14 June 2018 — with me on the panel

14th June 201816th June 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Includes video of the panel!

News: Me on launching an ICO, SEC on ICOs, CFTC subpoenas exchanges, KodakCoin and NBA/NHL, 51% attacks, Mona Lisa on the blockchain, EOS security, York retrospective

12th June 201813th June 2018 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

Pictures from York. And “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” is cheap in Canada this month!

YouGov Direct’s “GDPR-compliant” blockchain — GDPR-laundering as a service

11th June 201812th July 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Polling company YouGov think that, with YouGov Direct, they can sell demographic data to advertisers in a suitably GDPR-laundered manner. Using … the blockchain!

How to record Skype audio on a PC — Open Broadcaster Software (obs-studio)

6th June 201823rd June 2018 - by David Gerard - 3 Comments.

A surprisingly common technical problem — elegantly solved!

West Virginia’s Voatz blockchain voting pilot … is another single-user blockchain as a database

5th June 20187th August 2018 - by David Gerard - 7 Comments.

The West Virginia blockchain voting pilot just records the votes in a private blockchain, used as a database. Apparently, this is a big win for voting on the blockchain.