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- Book reviews (press and podcast)
- Book reviews (blogs)
- Academic citations
- Press interviews
- Podcast and video interviews
Book reviews (press and podcast)
- Eruditorum Press, 24 July 2017: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by Elizabeth Sandifer
- A Journal of Musical Things, 15 August 2017: Can Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Transform the Music Industry? Maybe, Maybe Not by Alan Cross
- Fintech News Hong Kong, 26 September 2017: 10 Blockchain Books and Studies You Should Read
- LSE Business Review, 30 October 2017: Blockchain and bitcoin: In search of a critique by Martin Walker
- Fintechnews Singapore, 12 December 2017: 8 New Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Books to Learn Bitcoin and more
- BBC News, 22 December 2017: Tech Tent: What a year for Bitcoin by Rory Cellan-Jones
- BBC Brasil, 30 December 2017: Tudo o que você precisa saber sobre a ascensão e — aparente — queda do bitcoin em 2017 (“Everything you need to know about the rise and — apparent — fall of bitcoin in 2017“) by Rory Cellan-Jones
- New York Review of Books, 18 January 2018 (published 31 December 2017): Bitcoin Mania by Sue Halpern
- Finmag, 4 January 2018: Bitcoin a vlády jsou kamarádi (“Bitcoin and the government are friends“) by Michal Kašpárek
- eXeBlock, 5 January 2018: 5 Books on Blockchain Worth Reading
- Blocksplain, 23 January 2018: Blockchain in 2018: pros and cons by Richard MacManus
- E15.cz, 21 February 2018: Knihy o kryptoměnách neslouží jen jako manuál. Část z nich se pouští i do kritiky pravicové ideologie (“Books about cryptocurrencies are not just manuals. Part of them also goes into criticism of right-wing ideology”) by Red
- NewMR, 12 March 2018: ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain’ – Book Review by Ray Poynter
- InfoQ, 22 March 2018: Book Review: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by Ben Evans
- Jotwell, 3 April 2018: New Kids on the Blockchain: David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts (2017) by Andres Guadamuz
- CryptoComes, 12 May 2018: 10 Best Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Books of All Time by Allan Slavinsky
- Bankless Times, 30 May 2018: If you’re new to cryptocurrency, it may be worth checking out a few books by Allyson Brooks
- CoinSchedule, 1 June 2018: The Five Best Blockchain Books
- KryptoGraphe, 26 July 2018: What Are the Best Books for Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Beginners?
- Bitcoin Market Journal, 20 August 2018: Best Blockchain Books for 2018 by Alex Lielacher
- What Bitcoin Did, 19 October 2018: The B Foundation and Nouriel Roubini’s Testimony to Congress with Giacomo Zucco — book mention and description, 47:00 on
- Community Pulse, 19 December 2018: 2018 Wrap-Up (Episode 31) — book recommendation, 33:26 on
- Aaron Jaffe. “Reboot Everything.” American Book Review Volume 40, Number 6, September/October 2019 pp. 15-16, doi:10.1353/abr.2019.0094 — review of Blockchain: The Next Everything by Stephen P. Williams, recommending Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain instead
Book reviews (blogs)
- Gustav Erikson, 25 July 2017: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts by David Gerard
- Kristian Köhntopp, 1 August 2017: Fertig gelesen: Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain
- Liquefy, 9 August 2017: The Importance of the Critical book: Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain
- Bob Morris, 1 September 2017: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain. Yes, it’s a bubble
- Value and Opportunity, 3 September 2017: Book review “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain”
- Affinity (FreethoughtBlogs), 3 September 2017: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
- Maxie Duncan, 8 November 2017: Review: Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain
- David Rosenthal, 16 November 2017: Techno-hype part 2
- David Pelayo, 27 November 2017: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
- Clive Tong, 27 November 2017: Bitcoin – where does it go next?
- Nocturnal, 20 December 2017: Book Review: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
- Roman Irani, 7 January 2018: Book Review — Attack of the 50 feet Blockchain — David Gerard
- Christoph Michel, 24 January 2018: Book Review — Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
- Roger Burton-West, 31 January 2018: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain, David Gerard
- William Shaw, 1 February 2018: Review: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard
- Rob C. Rogers, 3 March 2018: “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain”
- Ben Sheffield, 11 April 2018: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain — David Gerard
- Mark Eldridge, 7 May 2018: Cunningham’s Law, book reviews, and password complexity
- Big Lychee, 30 May 2018: Recommended Books
- Ilya Kleyner, London Blockchain Labs, 14 October 2018: The best books to read about blockchain — LBL’s Top 10
- Andrew Stephens, 16 December 2019: Book Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard
- Mike Hall, 2 January 2022: Finished reading: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard
- Goodreads: Kindle, paperback
Academic citations
- Zīle, K.; Strazdiņa, R. (2018). Blockchain Use Cases and Their Feasibility. Applied Computer Systems, 23(1), 12-20. doi:10.2478/acss-2018-0002
- Dujak D., Sajter D. (2019). Blockchain Applications in Supply Chain. In: Kawa A., Maryniak A. (eds) SMART Supply Network. EcoProduction (Environmental Issues in Logistics and Manufacturing). Springer, Cham.
- Åberg, Emilie (2018). Hype, hot eller möjlighet? en analys av blockkedjeteknik för livsmedelskedjan och dess potentiella inverkan på svenska primärproducenter. First cycle, G2E. Alnarp: SLU, Department of Biosystems and Technology.
- Koens T., Poll E. (2018). What Blockchain Alternative Do You Need? In: Garcia-Alfaro J., Herrera-Joancomartí J., Livraga G., Rios R. (eds) Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, pp 113-129. DPM 2018, CBT 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11025. Springer, Cham.
- Peter Williams (2018). Does competency-based education with blockchain signal a new mission for universities? Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. DOI: 10.1080/1360080X.2018.1520491
- Marković, Jurica (2018). Ethical foundations and moral challenges of blockchain technology. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Philosophy.
- Balázs Bodó, Daniel Gervais, João Pedro Quintais. Blockchain and smart contracts: the missing link in copyright licensing? International Journal of Law and Information Technology. DOI:10.1093/ijlit/eay014
- Nancy Baym, Lana Swartz, Andrea Alarcon. Convening Technologies: Blockchain and the Music Industry. International Journal of Communication, v. 13, p. 20, Jan. 2019.
- Arvind Sabu. Reframing Bitcoin and Tax Compliance. Saint Louis University Law Journal, 64 (2), pp. 181–218, Winter 2020 (27 April 2020).
- Micah Altman, Karen Cariani, Bradley Daigle, Christie Moffatt, Sibyl Schaefer, Bethany Scott, Lauren Work. 2020 NDSA agenda for digital stewardship. NDSA, 29 April 2020. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/BCETD
- William Favre Slater III. Leadership in Digital Uncertainty: New Strategy to Cope with the New Normal. Internet Society Blockchain SIG, 1 July 2020.
- Raúl Carrillo. Banking on Surveillance: The Libra black paper. Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund and Demand Progress Education Fund, 25 June 2020.
- Clifford C. Histed, Stephen M. Humenik, Jeremy M. McLaughlin, Anthony R.G. Nolan, Judith E. Rinearson. The Coming Blockchain Revolution in Consumption of Digital Art and Music: The Thinking Lawyer’s Guide to Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTS). National Law Review, Volume XI, Number 84.
- Devraj Basu, Murdoch J. Gabbay. Karl Marx and the Blockchain. arXiv:2007.13346, 29 June 2021. DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211016 — preprint
- Basu, D. and Gabbay, M. “Karl Marx and the Blockchain.” Grech, A. (Ed.) Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society (Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy And Culture In Network Communication). Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 225-241. DOI:10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211016 — published version
- Jose Eduardo A. Sousa, Vinicius C. Oliveira, Julia Almeida Valadares, Alex Borges Vieira, Heder S. Bernardino, Saulo Moraes Villela, and Glauber Dias Goncalves. 2021. Fighting Under-price DoS Attack in Ethereum with Machine Learning Techniques. SIGMETRICS Perform. Eval. Rev. 48, 4 (March 2021), 24–27. DOI:10.1145/3466826.3466835
- Hossain T., Mohiuddin T., Hasan A.M.S., Islam M.N., Hossain S.A. (2021) “Designing and Developing Graphical User Interface for the MultiChain Blockchain: Towards Incorporating HCI in Blockchain.” In: Abraham A., Piuri V., Gandhi N., Siarry P., Kaklauskas A., Madureira A. (eds) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. ISDA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1351. Springer, Cham. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-71187-0_41
- Meero, Abdelrhman & Darwish, Saad & Abdul Rahman, Abdul Aziz. (2021). Degree of Trustiness and Awareness of Cryptocurrency: Factors Affecting the Future Currency in The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues, Volume 24. 1-13.
Press interviews
- BlockTribune, 9 May 2017: David Gerard on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: “You Can Get a Long Way on Just Buzzwords and Big Claims” (archive) by Bruce Haring
- Heise Technology Review, Oktober 2017, p. 82 (published 14 September 2017): »Manche verstehen nicht, wofür es Gesetze gibt« (“Some don’t understand what laws are for”) by Sascha Mattke
- CEBMa Newsletter, Autumn 2017 (published 8 December 2017): Interview with David Gerard by Martin Walker
- Jungle.World, 25 January 2018: »Bei Bitcoin geht es weniger um Technologie als um Psychologie« (“Bitcoin is less about technology than psychology”) by Malte Voß
- Sustainability Zero, 5 June 2018: Bitcoin’s Energy (ab)use: Smells like Dung. But Horse Dung by Pratima H
- Decrypt Media, 8 April 2019: “Bitcoin is an apocalyptic death cult” — Curry with David Gerard by Ben Munster
- The Native Society, 19 June 2019: David Gerard: Author, “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts”
- now called Natfluence
- Fyggex, 5 January 2021: Fyggex VIP Insiders Interview Series 16: David Gerard. Crypto Journalist and Published Author
Podcast and video interviews
- Bitcoin Uncensored, 21 July 2017: podcast interview with Chris DeRose
- Financial Times FT Alphaville, 27 July 2017: Attack of the 50-foot blockchain, a sceptic’s guide to crypto — podcast interview with Izabella Kaminska
- Atlas Pulse TV, 4 October 2017: “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” — video interview with Charlie Murray
- The Innocents Abroad (podcast), 7 October 2017: Episode 15: Disruption — book review, 8:54 on
- 15Mb: The @dgwbirch Podcast Series, 21 January 2018: David Gerard, author of “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” — podcast interview with David Birch
- Cascadian Views, 27 January 2018 — podcast interview
- Consult Hyperion Tomorrow’s Transactions, 6 February 2018 — podcast interview with David Birch
- The Lite Podcast, 8 August 2018: 1.8 The Lite Podcast and David Gerard — podcast interview with eCurrencyHodler
- Crypto 101, 12 November 2018: Bitcoin Criticism: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain w/ David Gerard — podcast interview with Matthew Aaron
- Cryptojack TV, 24 December 2018: “Attack of 50 Foot Blockchain” REVIEW & DEBATE
- CoinSpice Milk, 10 January 2019: Crypto’s Main Hater Says You’re All Either Fools or Crooks: Meet David Gerard — podcast interview with C. Edward Kelso
- CryptoAuthority, 24 March 2019: PoW Debate with David Gerard and Dan Held
- Around The Coin, 14 April 2019: Episode 176: Interview with Bitcoin critic David Gerard about everything he finds wrong with Bitcoin — podcast interview with Nako Mbelle
- The CryptoLaw Podcast, 10 May 2019: Attack of the 50 Foot CryptoLaw Podcast — podcast interview with Adrian Cortez and Gabriel Shapiro
- Shell: The Energy Podcast, 16 May 2019: Blockchain: has the hype peaked? — panel discussion
- HODLCast, 3 June 2019: The HodlCastEp. 83 QuadrigaCX with Amy Castor and David Gerard
- Bitcoin Car Talk, 9 June 2019: Bitcoin Car Talk 22: David Gerard — comedy podcast with MikeInSpace
- End of the Chain, 11 June 2019: David Gerard Author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain — podcast interview with Samuel McCulloch
- Let’s Talk ETC!, 24 July 2019: Let’s Talk ETC! #93 – David Gerard, Author — Libra & A Contrarian’s View Of Blockchain Technology
- TruStory, 1 October 2019: Bitcoin will become the world’s reserve currency — debate with Vortex
- Keyword: Crypto, 19 October 2019: David Gerard: Bitcoin is Hilarious Trash
- What Is Crypto, 5 December 2019: Episode #13 $50,000 BTC? w/ David Gerard
- Finance Magnates, 22 April 2020: Blockchain Podcast # 119 — David Gerard, author of ‘Attack of the 50-Foot Blockchain’ — interviewed by Rachel McIntosh
- Finance Magnates, 5 May 2020: Bitcoin Post-COVID & Pre-Halvening: 4 Leading Experts Open Up on BTC — webinar round-table
- New Kids on the Blockchain, 2 May 2020: New Kids On The Blockchain — A Savage Journey To The Heart Of Crypto And The ICO
- One Knight In Product, 29 August 2020: Only Fools and Blockchain — interviewed by Jason Knight
- South Mimms U, 22 December 2020: The Last Bitcoin: The Ultimate Investment or The Final Folly of Humanity?
- Naked Scientists, 6 April 2021: Bitcoin: the psychology of getting rich — interviewed by Phil Sansom and Eva Higginbotham
- full show: Bitcoin Decrypted: Cash, Code, Crime & Power
- CoinGeek Conversations, 25 March 2021: Josh Petty and David Gerard: NFTS—new opportunity or crypto scam? — panel discussion
- The 9pm Edict, 17 April 2021: The 9pm Dumb Anarcho-Capitalist Blockchain Scams with David Gerard — interviewed by Stilgherrian
- I Don’t Speak German, 16 April 2021: 85: Crypto Fascists, with David Gerard
- Dunc Tank, 18 April 2021: David Gerard — Blockchain Skeptic — interviewed by Duncan Gammie
- Physical Attraction, 27 April 2021: Attack of the 50ft Blockchain, with David Gerard
- Naked Scientists, 17 September 2021: Confused by Cryptocurrency? — interviewed by Phil Sansom
- Left Reckoning, 23 September 2021: Episode 37 — Blockchain, Smart Contracts, & False Promise ft David Gerard
- Scam Economy, 28 January 2022: The ABCs of Crypto (w/ David Gerard) — interviewed by Matt Binder
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