nick szabo – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

News: Quadriga report, Coinbase VCs want to dump their dead altcoins, India to re-ban cryptos, Civil is dead

15th June 20202nd October 2020 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

And some light summer reading.

No, Nick Szabo wasn’t Satoshi Nakamoto in 2014 either

16th December 201817th December 2018 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

I’m writing an albatross of a book review. The book fingers Szabo as the most likely candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto. So I thought I’d share my pain.

Bitcoin’s stupendous power waste is green, apparently — bad excuses for Proof-of-Work

22nd May 201826th April 2019 - by David Gerard - 12 Comments.

Did you know that Bitcoin using 0.1% of all the electricity on earth, and 0.5% by the end of the year, is actually good? Huge if true.