An investigation into how the anti-establishment cryptocurrency became the very thing it was designed to oppose When Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper in October 2008—weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed and the global financial system teetered on the brink—the vision was clear: create a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that operated outside the control of central banks and financial institutions. “The...
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There’s a running joke among alumni of Manhattan’s elite Dalton School — a dark, uncomfortable joke that landed differently after the summer of 2019. They call it “the Epstein-Barr problem.” Not the herpes virus you learned about in biology class. Something far more unsettling. It’s the story of how a college dropout named Jeffrey Epstein walked into one of the...
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An investigation into how the anti-establishment cryptocurrency became the very thing it was designed to oppose When Satoshi Nakamoto published...
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