{"id":1199,"date":"2016-11-04T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2017-04-26T07:18:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T07:18:10","slug":"attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2016\/11\/04\/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/\">a short book on Bitcoin, blockchains, smart contracts and why all this garbage is garbage<\/a>. I hoped to have it out by now, but it turns out writing is work! My target is 500 usable words a day. Currently at 16,000 words of draft, I expect this to hit 20,000 (almost certainly not more than 25,000) and then I&#8217;ll cull it to size.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m occasionally ranting about it on my Tumblr. You can read the tag in <a href=\"http:\/\/reddragdiva.tumblr.com\/tagged\/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain\/\">reverse order<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/reddragdiva.tumblr.com\/tagged\/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain\/chrono\">chronological order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(and no, I probably can&#8217;t actually call it <i>Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain<\/i>. Suggestions welcomed.)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, my edits on cryptocurrency-related articles have helped a great deal in the research &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>FAQ answer:<\/b> Sadly, Amazon Kindle only accepts filthy fiat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing a short book on Bitcoin, blockchains, smart contracts and why all this garbage is garbage. I hoped to have it out by now, but it turns out writing is work! My target is 500 usable words a day. Currently at 16,000 words of draft, I expect this to hit 20,000 (almost certainly not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2016\/11\/04\/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-jl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}