Bitcoin Clowns, page 27
part #3 of Master Shanghai Series
“Ladies and gentlemen,” I said eventually, “you can call me irresponsible if that’s what you really think of me. And I wish you all good luck.” Once again I put my hands together and bowed, but this time I didn’t feel half as bad.
THE END
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About the Author
Vann Chow is a writer from Hong Kong who writes stories about Asia and Asian cultures in English. In 2015, her book Shanghai Nobody was featured on a popular Canadian book reading platform on the Top 20 General Fiction list for the most part of the year, and in 2016, her psychological thriller, The Pachinko Girl has been awarded the equivalent of an 'Oscar' by the same reading platform in the Hidden Gems category, beating over 140K other submissions.
Vann spent some time in America and she began writing when she noticed the lack of reading materials in English with strong protagonists of Asiatic origin that would resonate with Asian readers. Today, Vann writes for everyone who is interested in Asian way of life. Through her stories, Vann hopes to share the amazing, multi-faceted Asian history and culture with the wider world. Her stories are often lighthearted, humorful and full of meaning.
Vann's favorite authors are Oscar Wilde, William Somerset Maugham, and Alain De Botton.
The first book of the series, Shanghai Nobody, was first inspired by the Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project. Enthusiastic readers online have discovered the similarity, albeit the very different subject and writing style of the two books. They have also mentioned similarities to Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, to Vann’s pleasant surprise. But in fact Vann has always aspired to be the modern version of Voltaire, the satirical philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment that mixed moral lessons, cultures, histories and scientific thinking in his works Candide and Zadig. Vann highly recommends anyone who enjoyed the Master Shanghai series to read his works.
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[1] Thank you very much for your donation! Each QR code represent the wallet address of a different kind of coin. Do make sure that you are using the right one. Otherwise your coins will be lost and there is no way the author could retrieve or refund it unfortunately. Cheers!
[2] Forking, in gross oversimplified terms, is to create a copy of a cryptocurrency that is an updated version of the original by altering the transaction protocol that was written in code. The original may or may not be replaced depending on whether it is a ‘hard fork’ or a ‘soft fork’, in technical terms.
[3] Dorian Nakamoto, an old man living in America that shared the same last name as the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto was mistakenly assumed to be Satoshi Nakamoto by Newsweek journalist who wrote the infamous article about him. Dorian later revealed that his answers to the journalist’s questions were made under the assumption that they were speaking of secretive work he did at Citibank years ago, and that he had never even heard of Bitcoins until the event.
[4] Martin Shkreli : In September 2015, Shkreli received widespread criticism when his company Turing Pharmaceuticals obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price by a factor of 56 (from US$13.5 to US$750 per pill), leading him to be referred to by the media as "the most hated man in America".
[5] Parity is a multi-sigature Ethereum wallet. It was hacked twice in 2017, causing a lost of more than 600 Ethers in total to customers. One of the hacks was a mistake by a newbie user who claimed ownership to it the library of the wallet by accident and killed it in an attempt to rewind his actions.
[6] Coincheck is a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange. USD 523 million worth of NEM coins were stolen from their customers hot wallets. Hot wallets are wallets connected to external network.
[7] The CEO of EOS Dan Larimer released a similar bounty for white hats to find and report bugs a week before launch of EOS mainnet.
[8] Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, changed his Twitter handle into ‘Vitalik “Not giving away ETH” Buterin’ on March 2018.
[9] Zhang Yuning is a currently a striker for Werder Bremen, German Bundesliga, one of the few Chinese soccer player in famous foreign soccer clubs.
[10] At the time of writing, the most expensive Cryptokitties sold was called Genesis, costing its bidder $114,481.59. Cryptokitties uses the Ethereum network, unlike the fictional Bitokitties game here.
Vann Chow, Bitcoin Clowns
