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Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts

David Gerard

“A sober riposte to all the upbeat forecasts about cryptocurrency” — New York Review of Books

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Behind the Bastards

It was recommended as a way to understand how NFTs and cryptocurrency are often used in scams and money laundering. It was also described as very readable and not boring, unlike many other cryptocurrency explanations.

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I do really recommend attack of the 50-foot blockchain as a book if you actually want to like Understand all this stuff more and what a giant scam it is because I'm definitely getting it.

— Episode: Part Two: Let's Talk About Cryptocurrenc...

Episode: Part Two: Let's Talk About Cryptocurrency

It was recommended as a way to understand how NFTs and cryptocurrency are often used in scams and money laundering. It was also described as very readable and not boring, unlike many other cryptocurrency explanations.

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I do really recommend attack of the 50-foot blockchain as a book if you actually want to like Understand all this stuff more and what a giant scam it is because I'm definitely getting it.

It's very readable, it's very like as dry as a lot of crypto stuff is David does a very good job of like making you understand what's happening and how ridiculous it is without it being boring.

Slightly better than having your husband explain crypto to you because he spent your life savings on a JPEG.

Question number one: Should I buy bitcoins? Answer: No. But I keep seeing all this stuff in the news about them and how... Answer: No. Tech journalism is uniformly terrible, always remember this.

But if you just want to continue to be like, yeah Bitcoin seems stupid as shit, I'm not gonna get involved, that's also fine.

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