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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
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  • 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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Tag: kodakcoin

NFT news: Salesforce NFTs, Latvian NFT money laundering, gamers still hate NFTs

27th July 202228th July 2022 - by David Gerard - 9 Comments.

There can’t ever have been any such thing as Second Life, or all this Metaverse hype would just be stupid.

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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: Craig Wright loses big to Kleiman, tokens from SAFTs are securities, Patrick Byrne, IOTA again

27th August 201930th September 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

BITCOIN IS IMMUNE TO GOVERNMENT CONFISCATION! Except if you’re in real life.

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KodakCoin defends its ICO failure — and Eastman Kodak starts a new blockchain adventure

7th June 20198th June 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“Is that thing still going?” — my wife on KodakOne.

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News: US investors lose $1.7b on Bitcoin, Lightning Network, Cryptopia hack, QuadrigaCX founder/CEO dies, Tether timeline update

18th January 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“Crypto is a tax on libertarians the same way lottery is a tax on the poor.”

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KodakOne claims ONE MILLION DOLLARS of … hypothetical copyright-trolling income

11th January 201915th January 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Not answered: just how KodakOne’s “artificial intelligence” is supposed to automatically divine the correct email address to send a notice concerning any random web page.

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The KodakCoin ICO failed, and now everyone wants their money

10th December 201812th December 2018 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

The ICO failed, and nobody’s getting paid. Except ICOx Innovations. Also, one of the developers they stiffed is holding their Post-Licensing Portal software hostage.

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News: The crypto price crashes further, Tether, nodejs/NPM coin-stealing exploit, North Korea blockchain conference

26th November 201827th November 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

bullish on USD. it is clear that USD is increasingly popular with past hodlers of the deprecated bit-Coin. USD has gone up hugely in just the past day against the b.t.C!! in conclusion you should be getting into currency

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News: SEC subpoena storm, KodakCoin, QuadrigaCX funds frozen, exchange shenanigans

10th October 201814th October 2018 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

I have Internet at home again! Here’s news from the past few weeks.

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News: The SEC swings into action, Marshall Islands SOV, Papua New Guinea, new stablecoins, Indian crypto legality, R3 and Ripple settle, Star Xu of Okex detained, KodakCoin

11th September 201813th September 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

You know how everyone was wondering when the SEC would do something about the crypto space? Looks like they’re getting into motion.

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  • The conspiracy theory economics of Bitcoin
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