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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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News: the EOS ICO was a fake pump, Cardano smart contracts fail, cyclists vs. NextHash, MicroStrategy de-indexed, El Salvador Bitcoin goes live tomorrow

6th September 20217th September 2021 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

Wile E. Cardano, supergenius.

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News: Bitcoin mining is not green, miners versus programmers, gold is cleaner than bitcoin, exchanges collapse, how to forge an NFT

30th April 202114th September 2021 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

“Maybe your cryptocurrency is different. But look: you’re in really poor company. When you’re the only honest person in the room, maybe you should be in a different room.”

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News: Coinbase key holders leave, Ethereum 2.0 slashing, Libra may not become Diem, regulatory clarity in France

14th December 202014th December 2020 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

“If the business channel you watch leads its forex ticker with buttcoin price, you should switch the channel.”

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Critical journalism in the crypto ice age

28th February 202028th January 2021 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

The crypto media frantically circles a dwindling pool of promotional cash.

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News: Craig Wright and the bonded courier, Reggie Fowler plea hearing, four Tether class actions, WB21, Boaz Manor and BCT, Cobinhood, Libra, Blockchain Creme

19th January 202020th January 2020 - by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

Coding the deckchairs on the Titanic.

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News: IDAX and Upbit hacks, Binance threatens The Block, Tether sued again, Libra Association, Craig Wright attorney fees, EOS centralises,

1st December 20194th December 2019 - by David Gerard - 1 Comment

Come see me on the Intelligence Squared panel in London on Thursday afternoon — free!

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News: Libra and stablecoins and FinCEN, China still hates crypto trading, Tether

22nd November 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

And I’m doing another Intelligence Squared on Thursday 5 December — and this one’s free!

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FacebookCoin is being announced on Tuesday — and we still don’t know why it’s a crypto

15th June 201915th June 2019 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

Facebook are stressing that everyone should call their coin Libra, and not Facebook-anything. And definitely not ZuckerBucks.

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Breaker Mag is shutting down

1st May 201918th November 2019 - by David Gerard - 3 Comments.

Some reminiscences on Breaker, one of the crypto media crop of 2018.

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News: Ripple’s partners are fog, Bitcoin ups and downs and downs, Kik vs SEC, unbanking the banked

2nd February 20195th February 2019 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

QuadrigaCX’s Litecoin “cold” wallets are being drained as I write this.

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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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