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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: El Salvador volcano bonds to sell for tethers, Bitcoin didn’t cause Kazakhstan riots, lawsuits on the blockchain, MobileCoin live on Signal, Craig Wright sued again

8th January 202212th January 2022 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

Bitfinex Securities will not charge a fee for this. They’re just being nice, see.

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News: Craig Wright loses, baseball Bitcoin, Kickstarter on the blockchain, Australian crypto scams

9th December 202110th December 2021 - by David Gerard - 6 Comments.

A human centipede ouroboros of scammers scamming scammers scamming scammers.

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News: Square goes Block, Wikipedia NFT, El Salvador Bitcoin City plans, where the Chinese mining rigs went

4th December 202113th February 2022 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“Sound stupid? Great, you’re all caught up.”

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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: not Craig Wright’s bitcoins, how Tether flows, Goldman Sachs spurns Bitcoin, Calibra is now Novi

31st May 202017th April 2022 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn’t have the keys used to sign this message.”

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News: Cooking Mama and blockchain, the Halvening and Bitcoin Cash, Simple Assurance of Future Trouble, Kraken, Craig Wright: Craigness

14th April 20202nd October 2020 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

Markets are completely screwed, nobody knows what anything is worth, and the hard problem is keeping everyone in basic food and shelter. Nobody cares about your novelty crypto collectibles.

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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: Craig Wright and the bonded courier, Reggie Fowler plea hearing, four Tether class actions, WB21, Boaz Manor and BCT, Cobinhood, Libra, Blockchain Creme

19th January 202020th January 2020 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

Coding the deckchairs on the Titanic.

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News: 2020 predictions, ICO fallout, Craig Wright, Qatar and Uzbekistan block cryptos, Bitcoin and censorship, Libra

11th January 202019th June 2020 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

The Bitcoin white paper’s elegant simplicity only exists in a perfectly spherical monetary system in a vacuum at absolute zero.

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News: Kraken trouble in Wyoming, Reggie Fowler plea deal, Australia clamps down on crypto exchanges

22nd December 201923rd December 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

And so this is Christmas — and it turns out that banking commissioners take allegations of sanctions violations seriously.

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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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