“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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Any company that tries to pay your wages in company scrip — rather than actual money — should be treated as fraudulent trash.
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“A giant shared but segmented database, with the word ‘blockchain’ stuck on it.” All on the IBM Cloud.
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And first reports back from the Coinsbank Crypto Cruise.
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Smart contracts are fundamentally bad software engineering, part 666 in a never-ending series.
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With nice writeups of my book and related books.
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“Unfortunately the horrible Charlie Brooker future we’re living in is Nathan Barley not Black Mirror.”
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“A fish bowl with no food in it that fish keep jumping into because they heard it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet. And for the meanest fish, it is.” Why most Bitcoin on-paper “wealth” can never be realised.
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I did an interview for Heise Technology Review, Oktober 2017. It’s been a few months since it was published, so here are my original unedited answers in English.
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Plus: the worst bootleg version I’ve ever seen of any book, and it was of mine.
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