<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,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,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 \u2013 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">&quot;In the meantime, the Telegram channel was moving so fast that I could see history being corrupted in real-time.&quot;</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\u2019ve just finished reading Adrian Hon\u2019s 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\u2019ve Been Played</a>, which goes into some detail on the same idea. Every major social trend takes on the characteristics of an \u201calternate reality game\u201d these days, from QAnon to Crypto, and it\u2019s 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>