{"id":5611,"date":"2018-03-12T21:01:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=5611"},"modified":"2018-04-28T19:46:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T19:46:15","slug":"everything-to-do-with-cryptocurrencies-and-blockchains-is-the-domain-of-fast-talking-conmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2018\/03\/12\/everything-to-do-with-cryptocurrencies-and-blockchains-is-the-domain-of-fast-talking-conmen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Everything to do with cryptocurrencies and blockchains is the domain of fast-talking conmen.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Best final line of any book I\u2019ve read for a while. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xtbKLxHrxY\">pic.twitter.com\/xtbKLxHrxY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Pinnock, Specific and Limited (@jonpinnock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonpinnock\/status\/973170603841736704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Everything to do with cryptocurrencies and blockchains is the domain of fast-talking conmen. If anyone tries to sell you on either, kick them in the nuts and run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonpinnock\/status\/973170603841736704\">this tweet<\/a> did quite well. Particularly after it was retweeted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cstross\/\">Charlie Stross<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greatdismal\">William Gibson.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just wishing it had included the book name or link. Though I&#8217;ve had about thirty extra Kindle sales in the past few hours that appear to be from it. So I thought I should post so as to make the tweet text searchable!<\/p>\n<p>The tweeter, Jonathan Pinnock, is an author too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanpinnock.com\/\">Go look up and even read his stuff.<\/a> I recommend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanpinnock.com\/books\/mrs-darcy-versus-the-aliens\/sample-chapter\/\">sample chapter<\/a> of <em>Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanpinnock.com\/shop\/\">UK from the author<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2Hu9Ynv\">US on Amazon<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Sandifer was right (as usual) about the importance of a good last line.<\/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>Elizabeth Sandifer was right (as usual) about the importance of a book having a good last line.<\/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":[12,533],"class_list":["post-5611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain","tag-jonathan-pinnock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611","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=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6761,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}