<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><ul class="gmail-dcr-xry7m2" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.5;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.375rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25rem;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal">TechScape: They used my identity to flog a doomed cryptocurrency – and then things got weird<br></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/01/cryptocurrency-tsuka-alex-hern" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/01/cryptocurrency-tsuka-alex-hern</a></blockquote><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal">"In the meantime, the Telegram channel was moving so fast that I could see history being corrupted in real-time."</span></blockquote><div>[...] </div></div></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.375rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25rem;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><div><br></div></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.375rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.25rem;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If the idea of shitcoins as a big multiplayer video game intrigues you, I’ve just finished reading Adrian Hon’s book <a href="https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/adrian-hon/youve-been-played/9781541600195/#:~:text=In%20You%27ve%20Been%20Played,where%20losing%20has%20heavy%20penalties." style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(220,220,220);border-left-color:initial;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(199,0,0)">You’ve Been Played</a>, which goes into some detail on the same idea. Every major social trend takes on the characteristics of an “alternate reality game” these days, from QAnon to Crypto, and it’s having a deeply weird effect on our societal fabric.<span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit"> </span></blockquote><div> -- rec --</div></li></ul></div></div>