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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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News: FCA versus UK crypto, Infura sanctions on Ethereum, BitMEX Reed headed for trial, India

4th March 202229th March 2022 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

This is the cyberpunk future we deserved — the first NFT rugpull by a nation-state.

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News: Craig Wright in court, Mt. Gox settlement, Bitcoin futures ETF, Reddit community points, miners still can’t sell their bitcoins

13th November 202113th November 2021 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

We have a new CD out too!

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News: Bitcoin miners can’t sell their bitcoins, SushiSwap theft, Coinbase Lend, crypto seasteading

21st September 202122nd September 2021 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

’Twas on the good ship ’Toshi, by Craig you should have seen us, it was a little squashy and the end result was “penis.”

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News: Bitcoin’s enterprise use case, the Voice experience, Reggie Fowler, Quorum to Consensys, DeFi cease-and-desist

27th August 20202nd October 2020 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

POLICE TO BLACKMAILER: Let’s meet in person, so we can hand you the untraceable cryptocurrency in full view of a surveillance camera.

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The Baseline Protocol — your private business, on the public Ethereum blockchain. Why on earth?

5th March 20203rd April 2022 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

And the software that’s the secret sauce in this “enterprise” blockchain product explicitly says not to use it in production.

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News: Hester Peirce and Bruce Springsteen, the $350,000 DeFi hack, FCoin exchange collapse, Voatz still bad, IOTA still broken, merchants still nonexistent

18th February 20209th March 2020 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“It has been [0] days since the last inexplicably rare loss of customer funds from a Bitcoin exchange”

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News: no crypto banking in India, SEC, Texas treats stablecoins as money transmission, cross-EU crypto rules, Bitmain CEOs step down, Tron is nonsense, Girlfriend on the Blockchain

12th January 201913th January 2019 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

Girlfriend on the blockchain, I know it’s serious.

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News: Brave browser’s opt-out “fundraising” for third parties, fallout from the Bitcoin and Ether price crash, Tether margin trading, UK tax guidance

23rd December 201824th December 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

NUMBER GO UP, December 2017 — “a much bigger run coming in 2018”
NUMBER GO DOWN, December 2018 — actually it’s about the technology, OK,

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News: Crypto Visa issuer fined by Gibraltar, ICOpocalypse, US Congress, BitMEX, EOS, OmiseGo, Laurie Penny

12th December 201812th December 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

And the week’s opinion pieces — some sane and lucid … some not so much.

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News: SEC busts EtherDelta, SWIFT not using RippleNet, another Galt’s Gulch scam, Craig Wright claims to be Satoshi again

8th November 201811th November 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“I AM Satoshi” — Craig S. Wright, 3 November 2018.

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  • The conspiracy theory economics of Bitcoin
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  • Ethereum smart contracts in practice
  • The DAO: the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code
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