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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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Crypto Policy Symposium 2022 videos are up

7th September 20227th September 2022 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

All the videos in original running order.

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Tortoise Media: Making sense of Web3 with Luke Gbedemah — with Stephen Diehl, Geoffrey Huntley and David Gerard

26th May 202226th May 2022 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

The levels are all over the place, so get ready to adjust the volume on the fly. But our content was excellent, and it’s worth the effort. It runs a bit over an hour.

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Number go up with Tether — Musk and Bitcoin set the world on fire

21st February 202125th February 2021 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Bubbles grow until they pop. Timing the pop, that’s the tricky bit.

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News: A fool and his money are soon decentralised, Kodak rides again, Ledger data breach, $100k Bitcoin

6th August 20202nd October 2020 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

And Bitcoin nearly hits $100,000! … for a very brief time.

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  • The conspiracy theory economics of Bitcoin
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  • Ethereum smart contracts in practice
  • The DAO: the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code
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