{"id":9076,"date":"2018-08-08T17:47:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2018-08-08T17:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:47:26","slug":"the-lite-podcast-1-8-david-gerard-and-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2018\/08\/08\/the-lite-podcast-1-8-david-gerard-and-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lite Podcast 1.8: David Gerard and Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2018\/08\/08\/the-lite-podcast-1-8-david-gerard-and-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain\/the-lite-podcast\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9080\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9080\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/the-lite-podcast-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/the-lite-podcast-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/the-lite-podcast-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/the-lite-podcast.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ECurrencyHodler\">ECurrencyHodler<\/a> and I had an argument on Twitter, and he said he wanted to do a talk with me. So we recorded a podcast on Monday, and it&#8217;s just gone up!<\/p>\n<p>We discuss <em><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/book\/\">Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain,<\/a><\/em> crypto economics, the end of the gold standard, what a currency is for, why I <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2018\/05\/22\/bitcoins-stupendous-power-waste-is-green-apparently-bad-excuses-for-proof-of-work\/\">don&#8217;t like Proof of Work,<\/a> how bad normal people are with money, why ICOs are <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/icos-magic-beans-and-bubble-machines\/\">trash<\/a> but will probably <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2018\/06\/14\/topline-comms-how-to-launch-a-successful-ico-with-me-on-the-panel\/\">be around for a long time,<\/a> and the attraction of <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/business-bafflegab-but-on-the-blockchain\/\">private blockchains.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lite Podcast is usually 30 minutes, but I can talk forever, so this one&#8217;s 50 minutes. Still within reasonable casual podcast limits!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thelitepodcast.libsyn.com\/18-the-lite-podcast-and-david-gerard\">the page with show notes,<\/a> and there&#8217;s a download link there.<\/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>I go on ECurrencyHodler&#8217;s podcast, The Lite Podcast. This was good.<\/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":[12,816],"class_list":["post-9076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain","tag-ecurrencyhodler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076","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=9076"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9091,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}