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Hello! This week's episode is an old-fashioned internet mystery, except with a bit of an unusual twist. It's both a story about tracking down something extremely valuable that was stolen online, and it's also an attempt to understand why that thing, a digital image of a bored ape, would be so valuable in the first place.
A story of a heist that is also asking, was the thing that was stolen itself a kind of scam? I really love this story. It ended up being a snapshot from atop the height of the NFT frenzy. It also happens to include one of the funniest interviews with an anonymous or pseudonymous source I've ever gotten to conduct. I hope you enjoy it. We'll play it after some brief ads.
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Should we have audio? Because that would be awesome.
It doesn't look that way.
This is a video recorded back in May of 2014. We're at a technology conference in Manhattan where, in a few moments, something surprisingly consequential is about to be born.
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