{"id":23303,"date":"2022-06-30T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T10:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=23303"},"modified":"2022-07-04T16:17:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:17:43","slug":"my-appearance-before-the-house-of-commons-science-and-technology-committee-wednesday-29-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/30\/my-appearance-before-the-house-of-commons-science-and-technology-committee-wednesday-29-june\/","title":{"rendered":"My appearance before the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, Wednesday 29 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/30\/my-appearance-before-the-house-of-commons-science-and-technology-committee-wednesday-29-june\/parliament-committee\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23313\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23313\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/parliament-committee.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/parliament-committee.png 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/parliament-committee-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/parliament-committee-348x215.png 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday morning, I went to the Parliament of the United Kingdom! Well, a committee room in the building next door to Parliament. But I<a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/23\/im-appearing-before-the-house-of-commons-science-and-technology-committee-wednesday-29-june\/\"> spread the gospel of Buttcoin to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee,<\/a> and that&#8217;s the important part.<\/p>\n<p>(I did not in fact say &#8220;buttcoin,&#8221; sorry.)<\/p>\n<p>The session ran in three parts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Izabella Kaminska was paired with David Shrier from Imperial College, a blockchain promoter who put forward a pile of claimed blockchain successes which furiously mixed up &#8220;could&#8221; and &#8220;is&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>I was paired with Tom Robinson from Elliptic, a cryptocurrency compliance firm;<\/li>\n<li>third was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Naughton\">John Naughton<\/a> from Cambridge University, an old, cynical and un-BSable professor, paired with Craig O\u2019Kane from Everledger, who hold that that a Hyperledger-based supply chain log is an innovation that does anything new.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The original terms of reference concerned enterprise blockchain \u2014 but everything about blockchain and cryptocurrency was mixed together, much as it is in the usual discourse on the subjects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/30\/my-appearance-before-the-house-of-commons-science-and-technology-committee-wednesday-29-june\/david-at-parliamentary-committee\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23323\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/david-at-parliamentary-committee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/david-at-parliamentary-committee.jpg 960w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/david-at-parliamentary-committee-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/david-at-parliamentary-committee-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can watch two hours of video at the Parliament Live TV website. My bit starts at 10:27:40am, but the other segments are also worth your time. At 10:10:42am, you can hear Aaron Bell MP entering &#8220;&#8230; forgive me, but so-called shitcoins &#8230;&#8221; into the record. [<a href=\"https:\/\/parliamentlive.tv\/event\/index\/5f598dbb-6fa9-4d49-bf5a-70f9efca3192\"><em>Parliament<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>There should be a transcript available, some time in the fabulous future. <strong>Update:<\/strong> Transcript is up! [<a href=\"https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/oralevidence\/10523\/html\/\"><em>Parliament<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo! News wrote up the hearing very quickly, mostly covering what Izabella and I said. [<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/crypto-blockchain-is-hype-mps-warned-121015347.html\"><em>Yahoo! News<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/30\/my-appearance-before-the-house-of-commons-science-and-technology-committee-wednesday-29-june\/izzy-david\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23315\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23315\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/izzy-david.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/izzy-david.jpg 922w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/izzy-david-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/izzy-david-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small><em>Izzy and David down the Starbucks later for the post-mortem<\/em><\/small><\/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>At 10:10:42am, you can hear Aaron Bell MP entering \u201c\u2026 forgive me, but so-called shitcoins \u2026\u201d into the record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3047,74,29,457],"class_list":["post-23303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-aaron-bell","tag-blockchain","tag-izabella-kaminska","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/parliament-committee.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303","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=23303"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23360,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303\/revisions\/23360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}