BitConnect: The $2.4 Billion Crypto Ponzi Behind a Viral Meme
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!BitConnect launched in February 2016 with a pitch that sounded like a cheat code. Trade your Bit...
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Bitcoin's Biography: Satoshi's Ghost, Silk Road, and Digital Gold
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2013 someone threw away a hard drive holding the private keys to 7,500 bitcoins, and no gover...
7 Okt 20min
The Hermès Birkin Bag: From Spilled Diapers to a $10 Million Asset
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On a 1984 flight from Paris to London, Jane Birkin's wicker basket tipped over and scattered scr...
7 Okt 20min
Benjamin Graham: Warren Buffett's Teacher and the Margin of Safety
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Benjamin Graham held patents for calculators, wrote Broadway plays, spoke seven languages, and t...
7 Okt 21min
Barry Minkow: ZZZZ Best Whiz Kid, Fraud Hunter, and Crooked Pastor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Barry Minkow was a telemarketer for a carpet cleaner at nine and the founder of ZZZZ Best at 16,...
7 Okt 20min
Alves Reis: The Forger Who Got Portugal's Real Money Printed
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1920s, a 28-year-old dropout named Alves Reis arranged for the printing of banknotes wort...
7 Okt 23min
AOL: From Free CDs and a $360 Billion Merger to a Fire Sale
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At one point in the 1990s, half of all the compact discs manufactured on the planet carried the ...
7 Okt 27min
High-Frequency Trading: The Nanosecond War Inside the Stock Market
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Light moves about 30 percent slower through fiber optic glass than through open air, and in high...
7 Okt 22min
