{"id":19225,"date":"2021-04-17T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=19225"},"modified":"2021-04-17T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T19:12:08","slug":"stilgherrian-the-9pm-dumb-anarcho-capitalist-blockchain-scams-with-david-gerard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2021\/04\/17\/stilgherrian-the-9pm-dumb-anarcho-capitalist-blockchain-scams-with-david-gerard\/","title":{"rendered":"Stilgherrian: The 9pm Dumb Anarcho-Capitalist Blockchain Scams with David Gerard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The following episode of <em>The 9pm Edict<\/em> contains strong language, financial crimes, and some sad truths about humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=44369392&amp;theme=light&amp;autoplay=false&amp;playlist=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I recorded three podcasts in the past week, and this is the second to come out. Stilgherrian is an Australian tech journalist. We&#8217;ve followed each other&#8217;s stuff for a while now. Stil was delighted with both <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/book\/\"><em>Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/libra\/\"><em>Libra Shrugged,<\/em><\/a> and so his people* got in touch with my people** and arranged to record a podcast. [<i><a href=\"https:\/\/stilgherrian.com\/edict\/00131\/\">The 9pm Edict show notes<\/a><\/i>]<\/p>\n<p><small>* him<br \/>\n** me<\/small><\/p>\n<p>We talk about what a bitcoin is, <em>why<\/em> a bitcoin is, Elon Musk, how Bitcoin mining works, bad excuses for Bitcoin&#8217;s CO2 production, why I wrote <em>Attack<\/em> and <em>Libra Shrugged<\/em>, what the hell Facebook was thinking with Libra, my music blog Rocknerd, NFTs, American health insurance, and how number goes up and down. And Chuck Tingle. 71 minutes total.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2021\/04\/17\/stilgherrian-the-9pm-dumb-anarcho-capitalist-blockchain-scams-with-david-gerard\/9pm-edict\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19236\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19236\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/9pm-edict.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/9pm-edict.jpg 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/9pm-edict-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/9pm-edict-348x215.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&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>&#8220;The following episode of The 9pm Edict contains strong language, financial crimes, and some sad truths about humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19236,"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":[12,2011,1510,2218],"class_list":["post-19225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain","tag-libra-shrugged","tag-podcast","tag-stilgherrian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/9pm-edict.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225","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=19225"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19247,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19225\/revisions\/19247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}