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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 collapse: Celsius’ real liabilities and fake assets, Voyager still bankrupt, 3AC owns CryptoDickButt #1462

15th July 202215th July 2022 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“I used to be an investor like you, until I took three arrows to the knee.”

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News: Crypto crime statistics, Axie Infinity hack, Kevin Roose debunked, Lightning Network speed, NFT lawsuits

29th March 202212th June 2022 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

I shall henceforth be calling Bitcoin mining “extreme bingo.”

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News: Bitcoin miners can’t sell their bitcoins, SushiSwap theft, Coinbase Lend, crypto seasteading

21st September 202122nd September 2021 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

’Twas on the good ship ’Toshi, by Craig you should have seen us, it was a little squashy and the end result was “penis.”

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News: El Salvador Colón-Dollar, everybody hates BlockFi, Tether does CNBC

25th July 202122nd February 2022 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

“One of the downsides of being both incompetent, unscrupulous and greedy is that you become very predictable.”

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News: Bitcointopia busted, OneCoin busted, 1pool busted, Canada audits crypto traders

12th March 201918th November 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Canada has a sudden interest in regulating cryptocurrency.

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News: no crypto banking in India, SEC, Texas treats stablecoins as money transmission, cross-EU crypto rules, Bitmain CEOs step down, Tron is nonsense, Girlfriend on the Blockchain

12th January 201913th January 2019 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

Girlfriend on the blockchain, I know it’s serious.

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News: Krebs on CoinHive, Ledger hardware hack, regulators vs ICOs, Sierra Leone, RIP Mavrodi, JPMorgan, RokoCoin

26th March 20187th November 2018 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

And nothing about Twitter blocking crypto ads, because I posted about that last week.

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Table of Contents

  • The conspiracy theory economics of Bitcoin
  • Dogecoin
  • Buterin’s quantum quest
  • ICOs: magic beans and bubble machines
  • Ethereum smart contracts in practice
  • The DAO: the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code
  • Business bafflegab, but on the Blockchain
  • Imogen Heap: “Tiny Human”. Total sales: $133.20

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