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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: Coinbase key holders leave, Ethereum 2.0 slashing, Libra may not become Diem, regulatory clarity in France

14th December 202014th December 2020 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

“If the business channel you watch leads its forex ticker with buttcoin price, you should switch the channel.”

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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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News: Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Blockchain, the YAM DeFi disaster, BitMEX goes KYC

14th August 20207th December 2020 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

Code is still LOL.

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News: Blockchain handouts, Wirecard UK, WhatsApp Pay Brazil, 10 billion tethers

17th July 20202nd October 2020 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

It’s right there in the white paper — cryptocurrency is about government handouts.

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News: 9 billion tethers, Reddit tokens, Kik is doomed, Singapore joins Libra, China’s CBDC — and J. K. Rowling asks about Bitcoin

15th May 202028th December 2020 - by David Gerard - 5 Comments.

And Investopedia are spammers, and you should remove any links to their site.

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News: Coronavirus kills conferences, India un-bans crypto, Bitcoin catches a cold

10th March 202010th October 2020 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“FCA are like the SEC If they forgot to do their job, ever” — Ben Munster

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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: Gladius ICO settles, pay-for-listing, Bitcoin SV, QuadrigaCX, Ripple, Greece

24th February 201926th February 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

And lots of good opinion pieces.

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News: Me in Athens on Sunday, Australian ICO inquiry, Ripple, QuadrigaCX, enterprise blockchain, JPMorgan Coin

15th February 201916th February 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Just call me Tom Marvolo Ripple — Lorp Volpemort.

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  • The DAO: the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code
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