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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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Crypto collapse: FTX is liquidating and getting an examiner, Tether’s Q4 attestation, more ETFs coming

3rd February 20244th February 2024 - by David Gerard - 7 Comments.

The people who already stopped buying bitcoins have a new way to not buy bitcoins any more.

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SEC approves bitcoin spot ETFs — what this means for crypto

10th January 202411th January 2024 - by David Gerard - 6 Comments.

Pumping bitcoin for fun and no profit.

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Bitcoin ETFs — coming soon! But in cash only

22nd December 202323rd December 2023 - by David Gerard - 6 Comments.

The SEC hates crypto and doesn’t want to allow a bitcoin ETF. But it may have to.

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News: blockchain MEP Eva Kaili corruption arrest, Nigerian CBDC rewrite, BBC blockchain misadventures

28th February 20236th March 2023 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

RMS Titanic NFTs: You wouldn’t download a corpse.

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Crypto collapse: US banks leave crypto, how Genesis kept Gemini hanging on, FTX, Binance, Nexo

25th January 202326th January 2023 - by David Gerard - 3 Comments.

I will gladly pay you GBTC on Tuesday for a hamburger today.

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Celsius hearing, December 8: Selling GK8 to Galaxy Digital

10th December 2022 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Is it time for a new tattoo?

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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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News: DRM on JPEG images on the blockchain, BlockFi user data breached, TornadoCash mixer goes full DAO, the plant cuttings asset bubble

21st May 202027th December 2020 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

If you could put two flies crawling up a wall on the blockchain, I’m pretty sure crypto day traders would bet on fly futures.

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News: IOTA, Massive Adoption, Mastercard v. Libra, DRM in JPEG plans, Reggie Fowler plea deal fails, more Silk Road busts, ICO grace period, the Bitcoin market

6th February 202021st May 2020 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

Mastercard throws Libra under the bus so hard, it bounces twice.

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News: NY AG on Bitfinex/Tether’s New York ties, Craig Wright tries to move Kleiman v. Wright, IRS on criminal investigations into crypto, regulators still hate Facebook Libra, Trump vs Libra and Bitcoin, more crypto exchange hacks

15th July 201915th July 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Perhaps iFinex can argue that two plus two only appears to make four, when actually it makes three, or five, or six hundred and sixty-six.

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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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