David Gerard is a Unix system administrator, an award-winning music journalist, and has blogged about music at Rocknerd.co.uk since 2001. He is a volunteer spokesman for Wikipedia, and is on the board of the RationalMedia Foundation, host of skeptical wiki RationalWiki.org. His website is davidgerard.co.uk. He lives in east London with his spouse Arkady and their daughter.
An experimental new Internet-based form of money is created that anyone can generate at home; people build frightening firetrap computers full of video cards, putting out so much heat that one operator is hospitalised with heatstroke and brain damage.
A young physics student starts a revolutionary new marketplace immune to State coercion; he ends up ordering hits on people because they might threaten his great experiment, and is jailed for life without parole.
Fully automated contractual systems are proposed to make business and the law work better; the contracts people actually write are unregulated penny stock offerings whose fine print literally states that you are buying nothing of any value.
The biggest crowdfunding in history attracts $150 million on the promise that it will embody “the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code”; upon release it is immediately hacked, and $50 million is stolen.
How did we get here?
David Gerard covers the origins and history of Bitcoin to the present day, the other cryptocurrencies it spawned including Ethereum, the ICO craze and the 2017 crypto bubble, and the attempts to apply blockchains and smart contracts to business. Plus a case study on blockchains in the music industry.
Bitcoin and blockchains are not a technology story, but a psychology story.
Remember: if it sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is.
發表於2024-11-28
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
這是一本扒BC的皮的書。 書的名字有點莫名其妙,上網查瞭查,來源於1958年的一部科幻片,Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,大概是美女遇到外星人,發生變異成瞭50英尺的巨人,報復負心人報復社會的扯淡故事。 作者David Gerard,自我介紹是個UNIX管理員 & 音樂記者。結閤書名...
評分這是一本扒BC的皮的書。 書的名字有點莫名其妙,上網查瞭查,來源於1958年的一部科幻片,Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,大概是美女遇到外星人,發生變異成瞭50英尺的巨人,報復負心人報復社會的扯淡故事。 作者David Gerard,自我介紹是個UNIX管理員 & 音樂記者。結閤書名...
評分這是一本扒BC的皮的書。 書的名字有點莫名其妙,上網查瞭查,來源於1958年的一部科幻片,Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,大概是美女遇到外星人,發生變異成瞭50英尺的巨人,報復負心人報復社會的扯淡故事。 作者David Gerard,自我介紹是個UNIX管理員 & 音樂記者。結閤書名...
評分這是一本扒BC的皮的書。 書的名字有點莫名其妙,上網查瞭查,來源於1958年的一部科幻片,Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,大概是美女遇到外星人,發生變異成瞭50英尺的巨人,報復負心人報復社會的扯淡故事。 作者David Gerard,自我介紹是個UNIX管理員 & 音樂記者。結閤書名...
評分這是一本扒BC的皮的書。 書的名字有點莫名其妙,上網查瞭查,來源於1958年的一部科幻片,Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,大概是美女遇到外星人,發生變異成瞭50英尺的巨人,報復負心人報復社會的扯淡故事。 作者David Gerard,自我介紹是個UNIX管理員 & 音樂記者。結閤書名...
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20#01 一本幣圈吐槽筆記,從中本聰到Craig Wright到Vitalik黑瞭個遍。傳統“區塊鏈”的項目在capacity等方麵的問題顯而易見,而“非blockchain”的DLT項目即便技術問題能解決也難免多少有些為賦新詞強說愁的尷尬。對於各種關鍵人物、項目背後的信息十分全麵詳細的梳理是這本書最有價值之處。後悔沒有早點讀到。
評分20#01 一本幣圈吐槽筆記,從中本聰到Craig Wright到Vitalik黑瞭個遍。傳統“區塊鏈”的項目在capacity等方麵的問題顯而易見,而“非blockchain”的DLT項目即便技術問題能解決也難免多少有些為賦新詞強說愁的尷尬。對於各種關鍵人物、項目背後的信息十分全麵詳細的梳理是這本書最有價值之處。後悔沒有早點讀到。
評分20#01 一本幣圈吐槽筆記,從中本聰到Craig Wright到Vitalik黑瞭個遍。傳統“區塊鏈”的項目在capacity等方麵的問題顯而易見,而“非blockchain”的DLT項目即便技術問題能解決也難免多少有些為賦新詞強說愁的尷尬。對於各種關鍵人物、項目背後的信息十分全麵詳細的梳理是這本書最有價值之處。後悔沒有早點讀到。
評分還挺好的一本書,對各種hacking的黑曆史如數傢珍,讀完後對加密貨幣信心全無。
評分還挺好的一本書,對各種hacking的黑曆史如數傢珍,讀完後對加密貨幣信心全無。
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載