#libra shrugged

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Libra Shrugged: the better cover

this is the punch out of your goddamn screen version of the Libra Shrugged front cover: paperback front and back, ebook front.

somehow, i don’t know how, it works like a tabloid headline. even at 160px in an Amaon search results listing. I checked on my phone earlier and it was no. 8 in a search for “libra.”

here’s the book preorder page: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/libra/

and here’s the page to go and give @ms-demeanor​ work, and pay her buckets of money for her genius: https://punkpuns.com/author

book release day: Monday 2nd November, 2020.

if you buy it, please review it. thank you.

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Libra Shrugged — Chapter 6: Banking the unbanked

A book excerpt! Cryptocurrency promoters never detail how they’re actually going to “bank the unbanked.” What would they need to do?

Without the help of all, he can do nothing, although his strong-boxes are full of gold.

— Peter Kropotkin

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Libra Shrugged — Chapter 15: Central bank digital currencies

An excerpt a year after the book’s publication — because I keep referring people to this chapter. Buy the book for more!

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i have a small but highly valued audience of friends on Dreamwidth, and i wrote this to tell them what on earth I'd been up to lately

THE PAPERBACK IS UP by the way, go to the book page

there will also be a PDF version on Google Books

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Facebook’s Libra is now Diem; STABLE Act says stablecoins must get banking licenses

The US has a fair chance of obliterating the US crypto trading stablecoin market in the quest to rein in Facebook’s bad idea.

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New Money Review podcast: Why Libra was bound to fail

My first podcast for Libra Shrugged is with Paul Amery at New Money Review.

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Book excerpt: Libra Shrugged—How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money - Decrypt

No-coiner David Gerard, has a new book out, Libra Shrugged: How Facebook tried to take over the money. Here's an excerpt.

decrypt ran an excerpt from the book! this is a fluffy bit, it goes a fair bit deeper

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Libra Shrugged is a Smashwords Father’s Day special — get your coupon here!

Your father needs to hear how Facebook tried to plant a data miner atop all of commerce … only to fall flat on their faces, tripped by their

with coupon to get Libra Shrugged for $5.99 instead of $7.99

(or if you is po', libgen it with my blessing. but still forward that post around ok)