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Hello, infamous listeners. Thanks so much for being back this week and listening to our show, the Campsite and Sony Music production. We are here this week without Natalie, but we do have Ben Wallace, an old colleague of mine from New York Magazine. He did a story about Terry Richardson that was pretty famous, the guy from the American apparel photographer Sleazebag.
He also wrote a book called The Billionaire's Vinegar, which is a great rare wine mystery tale. And he is out now with something that is extremely of the moment, which is a book about... the guy or guys or girls, we don't actually know, who invented Bitcoin, the mysterious Mr. Nakamoto. So thank you for being here, Ben Wallace.
Great to be here. Thanks for having me.
I do not think of you as a tech guy, but you have this book out now, which is about the invention of Bitcoin and who actually did it. And it's an anonymous person. It's like Guy Fawkes. Nobody knows who this person is, which is insane.
Exactly. And sometimes when people are writing about Nakamoto and they want to depict him, they actually use the Guy Fawkes mask.
So tell me how this all started.
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