The 9pm Autumn Series 2021 continues with blockchain and crypotocurrency realist David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money.
We talk about Bitcoin, of course, as well as cryptocurrency and blockchain technology more generally, Facebook’s plan to reinvent money, anarcho-capitalism, money laundering, market manipulation, Elon Musk, Philomena Cunk, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the nature of money, and even the nature of art.
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Episode Links
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I'm most active at the moment on my blockchain blog, and on Rocknerd, my music webzine.
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Blockchain and cryptocurrency news and analysis by David Gerard
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Bitcoin, blockchains, Ethereum and smart contracts — what these ideas are, why they don’t work in practice, and the sort of people attracted to them.
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Libra was as incompetent as it was arrogant — and the world stopped it in its tracks. But how did Facebook put forward such a bizarre and ill-considered plan, that left every regulator who saw it reeling in horror?
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DRUM MACHINE MUST BE STOPPED -DRUM MACHINE IS KILLING BLACK METAL- DRUM MACHINE IS NEXT KEYBOARD/CRUTCH AND IS DAGGER IN THE BACK OF BLACK METAL-
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[26 October 2020] Cryptocurrency Is Set To Take Off In 2021! Bitcoin And Ethereum Are Just The Start!!! Watch The Whole Video!!
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Bitcoin[a] (?) is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The currency began use in 2009 when its implementation was released as open-source software.
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A blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree).
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Anarcho-capitalism is a political philosophy and economic theory that advocates the elimination of centralized states in favor of a system of private property enforced by private agencies, free markets and the right-libertarian interpretation of self-ownership, which extends the concept to include control of private property as part of the self. In the absence of statute, anarcho-capitalists hold that society tends to contractually self-regulate and civilize through participation in the free market which they describe as a voluntary society.
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The Austrian School is a heterodox school of economic thought that is based on methodological individualism — the concept that social phenomena result exclusively from the motivations and actions of individuals.
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[12 April 2021] Token climbs past $61,000 though still short of all-time high. Coinbase is due to go public on the Nasdaq on April 14.
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?We are working closely with teams across the firm to explore ways to offer thoughtful and appropriate access to the ecosystem for private wealth clients, and that is something we expect to offer in the near-term,” Mary Rich, who was recently named global head of digital assets for the unit, said in an interview with CNBC.
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In cryptography, a nonce is an arbitrary number that can be used just once in a cryptographic communication.
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The energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with Bitcoin mining are accelerating rapidly in China, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Without more stringent regulations and policy changes, these impacts could undermine global sustainability efforts.
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The growing energy consumption and associated carbon emission of Bitcoin mining could potentially undermine global sustainable efforts. By investigating carbon emission flows of Bitcoin blockchain operation in China with a simulation-based Bitcoin blockchain carbon emission model, we find that without any policy interventions, the annual energy consumption of the Bitcoin blockchain in China is expected to peak in 2024 at 296.59 Twh and generate 130.50 million metric tons of carbon emission correspondingly. Internationally, this emission output would exceed the total annualized greenhouse gas emission output of the Czech Republic and Qatar. Domestically, it ranks in the top 10 among 182 cities and 42 industrial sectors in China. In this work, we show that moving away from the current punitive carbon tax policy to a site regulation policy which induces changes in the energy consumption structure of the mining activities is more effective in limiting carbon emission of Bitcoin blockchain operation.
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John, recently, crypto thought leaders like CoinShares’ Meltem Demirors have opined that Bitcoin can be thought of as a battery. From the 10,000 ft. level, what makes this a concept worth exploring?
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Seven essays about the alt-right, the end of the world, and tentacled computer gods from the future.
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The first comprehensive account of Bitcoin’s underlying right-wing politics
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They're not called Zuckerbucks but Facebook just reinvented digital money. Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency that will launch early next year is more like PayPal than Bitcoin — it's designed to be easy enough for everyone to use. But it's still complicated to understand so I'm going to break it down for you nice and simple.
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DeHaas told "Good Morning America" that the digital investment opportunity was inspired by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently sold his first tweet for $2.9 million.
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The complexity and arbitrariness of non-fungible tokens are a big part of their appeal.
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Cryptocurrency and high art are cooking up magic beans together with non-fungible tokens.
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The 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal (1MDB scandal) is an ongoing political scandal occurring in Malaysia. In 2015, Malaysia's then-Prime Minister Najib Razak was accused of channelling over RM 2.67 billion (approximately US$700 million) from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a government-run strategic development company (masterminded by Low Taek Jho, commonly referred to as Jho Low), to his personal bank accounts.
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The Fyre Festival was billed as a luxury music experience on a posh private island, but it failed spectacularly in the hands of a cocky entrepreneur.
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Original tweeter Trevor DeHaas is in need of a kidney transplant.
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My name is Trevor DeHaas. I’m a 30 year old currently on peritoneal dialysis dealing with end-stage renal disease. I only have 10%(10 GFR) function kidney’s left. After battling IgA Nephropathy for 20 years I’ve finally got the point where I need an altruistic kidney donor to save my life.
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What if I send you a .gif for $25,000 and you can just tell yourself it’s an NFT?
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Dr. Chuck Tingle has spoken — and in a good and proper world, that should just about wrap it up for NFTs.
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When Rosey realizes her dinosaur girlfriend, Memoon, is repeating several bizarre patterns throughout the month, she grows concerned about this strange behavior. It’s soon revealed that Memoon is a mass-produced clone, and Rosey breaks up with her.
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The Australian government is preparing to deploy income compliance against disabled people, and eventually a single app for all government services. What could possibly go wrong?
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