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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: 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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News: Bitcoin goes up, Reggie Fowler’s lawyers quit, Pokémon, ancaps buy a plague ship

10th November 202012th November 2020 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

And Decrypt is running an excerpt from Libra Shrugged.

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News: stupid DeFi tricks, Tether doesn’t have the documents for NYAG, Craig Wright loses again

21st September 20203rd January 2021 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“I’m going to put a lot of money into three card monte. Everyone I watch who plays it wins: it’s a sure bet.”

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New York’s problem with Tether — as set out for the appeal judges

13th December 201916th December 2019 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

If you were having problems getting your head around this case, this is a good and useful summary. Plus — iFinex’s response!

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New York v. Bitfinex — “Fundamentally, Respondents misperceive the respective roles of the Attorney General and the Court.”

21st August 201922nd August 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“Respondents’ contention that this proceeding should be dismissed because Petitioner failed to properly serve the April 24 Order is meritless.” This correctly translates as “don’t waste my time.”

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News: IOTA blackmail, Coinbase banking and lawsuit, ezBtc vanishes, Ross Ulbricht appeal fails, Wright motion denied, Butterfly Labs, TimiHealth

15th August 201917th August 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“I mean at a certain point as a lawyer you have to have a one word conversation with your client — ‘no.'”

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News: Bitfinex/Tether v. New York, Facebook-only Libra, Justin Sun, IRS letters, unbanking the banked

29th July 201930th July 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

How to get through Bitfinex’s bulletproof Know Your Customer process — click the “Not a US Resident” button.

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Bitfinex and Tether tell the New York AG they have nothing to do with New York

23rd July 201928th July 2019 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

iFinex needs to deny that 2+2=4. Their strategy is to deny the existence of 2 and 2, and cast doubt on the concept of addition.

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Bitfinex/Tether response to NY AG — quick Twitter thread

22nd July 201923rd July 2019 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

Waiting all day for these documents to drop, furiously hitting F5 — and iFinex got them in right on the dot of 5:30pm New York time.

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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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