{"id":1236,"date":"2017-10-01T18:03:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T18:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2017-11-01T20:28:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:28:01","slug":"book-news-happy-50-foot-blockchain-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/10\/01\/book-news-happy-50-foot-blockchain-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Book news: happy author, happy readers, &#8220;50 Foot Blockchain&#8221; photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon finally paid me! About \u00a31650 from July Kindle sales, \u00a3450 from August paperback sales. Goodness me, I have a successful self-published book! As of this afternoon, I&#8217;ve sold 342 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts\/dp\/1974000060?SubscriptionId=AKIAI53SB3VFQSPO5TZQ&#038;tag=50footblockch-20&#038;linkCode=alb&#038;camp=2025&#038;creative=165953&#038;creativeASIN=1974000060\">paperbacks<\/a>, 1219 ebooks via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-ebook\/dp\/B073CPP581?SubscriptionId=AKIAI53SB3VFQSPO5TZQ&#038;tag=50footblockch-20&#038;linkCode=alb&#038;camp=2025&#038;creative=165953&#038;creativeASIN=B073CPP581\">Kindle<\/a>, 32 via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/739078\">Smashwords<\/a> and 41 via <a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/boYYpL\">Draft2Digital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(The hourly rate for nine months&#8217; work writing it is dismal. Also, as a good and proper statist, I&#8217;m putting half of it aside for tax season, when Her Majesty&#8217;s Bankster Conspirators come calling. Also, the loved one keeps complaining I talk about bitcoins all the time. But a bit of return on this much work is always nice. And we did just order 8GB of memory for said loved one&#8217;s laptop.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <strong>KEEP TELLING YOUR FRIENDS<\/strong> about the book. And if any of you know journalists you could ask to review the thing, please do!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some happy fans from Twitter. Bottom one is my esteemed artist and designer, <a href=\"http:\/\/punkpuns.com\/author\">Alli Kirkham<\/a>. Email her today to get your book looking this fine!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Weekend reading. Great book <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidgerard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@davidgerard<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nzMpiZTTMp\">pic.twitter.com\/nzMpiZTTMp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nicol\u00e1s Berger (@nicoberger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicoberger\/status\/914267459049451521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidgerard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@davidgerard<\/a> is out. Looking forward to reading.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aSfWCTunbW\">https:\/\/t.co\/aSfWCTunbW<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vs8rZTEOUn\">https:\/\/t.co\/Vs8rZTEOUn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mNqtwCrO2M\">pic.twitter.com\/mNqtwCrO2M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sjors Provoost (@provoost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/provoost\/status\/889375824662671360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I illustrated the cover of this book about bitcoin it&#39;s a good book and you can buy it here <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/shp07znqLv\">https:\/\/t.co\/shp07znqLv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MYEeBUNv5Z\">pic.twitter.com\/MYEeBUNv5Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tumblrina (@punkpuns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/punkpuns\/status\/889377196950732800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1634 copies sold. I got paid!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,51],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain","tag-self-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}