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March 2022 Issue [Letter from Miami]

Cryptonomicon

by Will Stephenson,
Among the Bitcoin maximalists
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Illustrations by Melinda Beck

[Letter from Miami]

Cryptonomicon

by Will Stephenson,
Among the Bitcoin maximalists
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In the early days of the pandemic, I turned thirty and it occurred to
me that I didn't have a retirement account. I had never put any
serious thought into investing, or had any real money to invest. I
was financially illiterate--I had gotten my first credit card only a
year earlier to pay for a flight to a friend's wedding. I didn't
really own anything, beyond the clothes and books I dragged from one
apartment to the next. I had begun to feel pathetic, with no
prospects for accruing the kind of wealth that would allow someone
to...

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