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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain – Blockchain and cryptocurrency news and analysis by David Gerard
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2020
News: DeFi in full mania, Australian Senate fintech report, Bank of England on Libra, Care Bears on the blockchainoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2020
News: Bitcoin’s enterprise use case, the Voice experience, Reggie Fowler, Quorum to Consensys, DeFi cease-and-desistoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2020
26 Aug 2020
News: Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Blockchain, the YAM DeFi disaster, BitMEX goes KYCoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2020
News: A fool and his money are soon decentralised, Kodak rides again, Ledger data breach, $100k Bitcoinoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2020
News: Bitcoin ad regulation in the UK, Coinsquare settles with OSC, institutional investors fail to show up, nobody uses Bitcoinoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2020
17 Jul 2020
10 Jul 2020
5 Jul 2020
30 Jun 2020
News: Estonia not so keen on crypto, Peter Todd settles sexual assault defamation claim, how Compound works, bye bye Wirecardoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2020
Bancor releases smart contract security hole, hacks self, only loses a few hundred thousand dollars of user fundsoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2020
News: Quadriga report, Coinbase VCs want to dump their dead altcoins, India to re-ban cryptos, Civil is deadoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2020
News: not Craig Wright’s bitcoins, how Tether flows, Goldman Sachs spurns Bitcoin, Calibra is now Novioriginal ↗
31 May 2020
News: DRM on JPEG images on the blockchain, BlockFi user data breached, TornadoCash mixer goes full DAO, the plant cuttings asset bubbleoriginal ↗
21 May 2020
16 May 2020
News: 9 billion tethers, Reddit tokens, Kik is doomed, Singapore joins Libra, China’s CBDC — and J. K. Rowling asks about Bitcoinoriginal ↗
15 May 2020
Me on screen — “New Kids on the Blockchain” today, Finance Magnates web panel Monday, “Cryptopia” next Saturdayoriginal ↗
2 May 2020
News: Purse.io shuts down, Chinese CBDC test, new Libra member Heifer, North Korea does not dump its bitcoinsoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2020
Me on Finance Magnates podcast with Rachel McIntosh — Libra, CBDCs, the Bitcoin trading marketoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2020
16 Apr 2020
News: Cooking Mama and blockchain, the Halvening and Bitcoin Cash, Simple Assurance of Future Trouble, Kraken, Craig Wright: Craignessoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2020
30 Mar 2020
10 Mar 2020
The Baseline Protocol — your private business, on the public Ethereum blockchain. Why on earth?original ↗
5 Mar 2020
4 Mar 2020
News: London Football Exchange and Perth Glory, Ripple pays MoneyGram to be its friend, Libra not dead, IOTA still halted, Sweden’s not-a-CBDCoriginal ↗
29 Feb 2020
News: Hester Peirce and Bruce Springsteen, the $350,000 DeFi hack, FCoin exchange collapse, Voatz still bad, IOTA still broken, merchants still nonexistentoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2020
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce’s “safe harbor” proposal for ICOs will only enable scammersoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2020
News: IOTA, Massive Adoption, Mastercard v. Libra, DRM in JPEG plans, Reggie Fowler plea deal fails, more Silk Road busts, ICO grace period, the Bitcoin marketoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020
News: Craig Wright and the bonded courier, Reggie Fowler plea hearing, four Tether class actions, WB21, Boaz Manor and BCT, Cobinhood, Libra, Blockchain Cremeoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2020
News: 2020 predictions, ICO fallout, Craig Wright, Qatar and Uzbekistan block cryptos, Bitcoin and censorship, Libraoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2020
“Thousands” of Bomb Threats in Russia After BBC Links Businessman and FSB with $450 Million Bitcoin Theftoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2020
5 Jan 2020
2019
News: Kraken trouble in Wyoming, Reggie Fowler plea deal, Australia clamps down on crypto exchangesoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2019
News: Eran Eyal and Shopin charged again, some Cryptopia money found, Richard Heart and Hex, exhuming Gerald Cottenoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2019
News: Bitcoin trading near-dead, MooCowMoo does a Dash, Lightning Network, CBDCs are a bluff, Keybase alienates usersoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2019
3 Dec 2019
News: IDAX and Upbit hacks, Binance threatens The Block, Tether sued again, Libra Association, Craig Wright attorney fees, EOS centralisesoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2019
Virgil Griffith arrested over North Korea visit — engineer arrogance, but on the blockchainoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2019
28 Nov 2019
22 Nov 2019
15 Nov 2019
Facebook Pay does 100% of the useful bit of Libra. Why do a cryptocurrency as well? I still don’t know the answeroriginal ↗
14 Nov 2019
Of course I’m spending hours fiddling with writing tools instead of writing, what else would I be doing. I fail to get along with Scriveneroriginal ↗
6 Nov 2019
News: Libra stumbles on, Bitmex leaks customer list, Crypto Capital Corp arrest and indictment, Tether appeal, Blockchain for China, Kleiman v. Wright settlement fails, Telegram tokens delayed, UK tax for cryptosoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2019
22 Oct 2019
News: Tether sued, ether is a commodity, proof of work is still awful, IRS releases incomprehensible guidanceoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2019
15 Oct 2019
News: EOS settles with SEC, PayPal dumps Libra, digitised gold, Coinbase triples fees, Bitcoin Foundation is deadoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2019
1 Oct 2019
News: Bitcoin crashes despite Bakkt, Crypto Rating Council, Libra, Tether stay, Kik shuts down Messenger, Craig Wright’s apparent plagiarism, CoinDesk shakeuporiginal ↗
30 Sept 2019
News: Kleiman and Wright settling, Libra, Tether, Initial Sucker Offerings, enterprise “blockchains” as back-end datastores, Marshall Islands, Telegram TON softwareoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2019
David Marcus responds to nations’ concerns about Facebook’s Libra — with shallow platitudesoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2019
15 Sept 2019
Chris Burniske, Jack Tatar: Cryptoassets — telling retirees to buy into the Bitcoin bubble in October 2017original ↗
14 Sept 2019
News: Tether clogs Ethereum, Quadriga venue move, KodakOne sends copyright-trolling email, Telegram TON proceeding, no official Chinese stablecoin, Lightning in decline, don’t be your own bankoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2019
28 Aug 2019
News: Craig Wright loses big to Kleiman, tokens from SAFTs are securities, Patrick Byrne, IOTA againoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2019
New York v. Bitfinex — “Fundamentally, Respondents misperceive the respective roles of the Attorney General and the Court.”original ↗
21 Aug 2019