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I couldn’t believe that every day, people sent millions of perfectly good U.S. dollars to the Inspector Gadget creator’s Bahamian bank in exchange for digital tokens conjured by the Mighty Ducks guy and run by executives who were targets of a U.S. criminal investigation.
Zeke Faux • Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
She peered at men in the grocery store and wondered if they were undercover cops who knew that she lived with the man who had started the Silk Road.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
a good sentence: a small explosion of exactitude.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia
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Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
curation.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
a laugh: “Look at Bitcoin Jesus.” It was a nickname that would stick.
Nathaniel Popper • Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Best Served Cold: Luigi Mangione and The Age of Breach: Technofeudalism, accountability porn and the new counterculture Alexander Beiner 12.14.2024
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At a time when the Victorians prided themselveson science and rationality, the two quiet young men from Buffalo, New York began a confusing debate about just how honest a magician needed to be or could afford to be.