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Aug 22Liked by Molly White

"he created an educational web game where you roleplay as a child selling lemonade to learn about financial responsibility."

I don't want to knock this kid's creativity, but I remember playing a lemonade stand flash game literally over two decades ago.

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Aug 22Liked by Molly White

Hell we were playing "Lemonade Stand" on the Apple ][ decades ago to develop our financial literacy. (I learned to just wait for road work day, when you made a fuckin windfall.)

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Aug 22Liked by Molly White

The hype surrounding Bitcoin these days is astonishing. I guess the purpose of predicting that Bitcoin will go to a million dollars is to convince "hodlers" that even if the prediction is off by 90% they should just go out and buy some more.

But of course if Bitcoin actually goes to a million dollars they should understand that a cup of coffee will cost them $200,000.

Moral: don't throw away your hundred trillion dollar note. Zimbabwe will rise again!

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Aug 22Liked by Molly White

It's almost as if Coinbase expects the appellate court to be more lenient towards Tornado Cash, following the old Roy Cohn adage: I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

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Aug 22Liked by Molly White

Congrats on the 1,000 subscriber milestone. Whatever you do next, I hope it includes crypto coverage! What is up with NYT on crypto coverage. So weird that it’s editors have such a blind spot. Maybe it’s because the Times is so intent on being hip and it figures crypto is hip even if it’s a huge grift? Really mystifies me. Any theories?

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1) I am glad to be part of that first 1,000 paid subs. Yay!

2) I just spit coffee on reading the Gitcoin bulleted list. Bravo, Ms. White, bravo!

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Aug 22Liked by Molly White

I am glad to see Kenya is asking questions about the very questionable Worldcoin.

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Aug 22Liked by Molly White

Re "750,000 pages of Slack messages from Gary Wang’s laptop" - Admittedly I haven't used Slack in a good while, but what the FUCK is taking up that many pages???

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Woohoo! The comments are THE cool place to be!

Anyway, what I really wanted to say is that the one kid's college admission consultant is absolutely killing it. Next up is a ghostwritten book.

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Aug 24Liked by Molly White

Congratulations, so 1k today, next target 5k?

Keep the uniquely informative journalistic reporting,

Seriously there should be a lot more than 1k who literally “need” your commentary.

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