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date    = "2022-11-11T00:57:25+00:00"
lastmod = "2022-11-11T00:58:25+00:00"
tags    = [ "coins" ]
author  = "tdro"
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Text (book or screen) has an allure that allows otherwise intelligent people to
throw away their deductive and dialectical skills. Faulty information online
drives decision making for many influencers/politicians. And so the question
remains; who influences the influencers?

[`FTX`](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTX_(company)>), a cryptocurrency company
headquartered in my country (The Bahamas) has
[fallen](https://web.archive.org/web/20221110142051/https://twitter.com/sbf_ftx/status/1590709166515310593).
This was the obvious outcome... but convincing people beforehand was an
{{< smallcaps impossibility >}}. Authority and influence always beat reason and sanity.