Libra Shrugged: How Facebook’s dream of controlling the world’s money crashed and burned. 2 NOV 2020

[reddragdiva]

jesus fuck, self publishing.

so IT’S A HAPPENER YAY W00T

publishing date is 2 NOV 2020.

book page: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/libra/

so i need to get text to amazon 3 days before, and smashwords wants ten days before. (i might push smashwords date back.)

at this point 95% of my problems are marketing and promotion.

the other 5% are re-remembering mercifully repressed details of the self-publishing process, given the inarguable certainty of universal laws that computers are dogshit. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

in more comforting news, here's past asset bubble veteran Inch to offer calming advice on writing:

Comments

[greylock]

Is bitcoin still a thing?
It seems so 2018.

I have vague recollections of what this book is about. Is this your second bitcoin one?

(2020 has been a trip - I mean, your daughter is a teen now, right? - but I am sure a sequence of events happened once.)

[reddragdiva]

Facebook! Horrible nerds! Getting their comeuppance!

the whole dumb idea came from bitcoin fans, but note how I managed to leave bitcoin entirely out of the description

[greylock]

Librecoin factoids randomly popped into my head today.

I have so few fucks to give about Facebook (or any cryptocurrency), I'd quite forgotten that footnote in Zuck's hubris.