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Hi, search engine listeners. This is PJ Vogt. I hope you're having a cool summer. Over the next four weeks, I want to take you back in time to a very strange moment in our very recent history. The year was 2022. The prices of various cryptocurrencies had smashed through the ozone layer. And if you were trying to figure out what was going on and you went online, you'd encounter two kinds of people.
Either a person claiming to have gotten rich off crypto, telling you to buy now before it was too late. Or one of the people who overnight had amassed large online followings by relentlessly explaining how all of this was a farce. A bunch of planet-burning scammers trying to separate you from your money with useless Ponzi technology.
As a person who just wanted to understand what was happening and why, I found the internet even less useful than usual. So we decided to do our own research. I didn't want to know if crypto was good or bad. I mean, it was internet money. What I wanted to know was why this was happening. What, if anything, it meant for a society to suddenly both worship and feud over internet money.
The result was a nine-part series called Crypto Island. That mini-series was also the precursor to Search Engine, where we found the voice for this show. We tried to strengthen our capacity to be curious and open-minded in the face of a polarizing topic. And in the process, we found some great stories. Classic internet capers in a lysergic new chapter of life online.
We investigated NFT kidnappings, met apocalyptic crypto believers preparing for the next world war. We wound up at one point on a melting glacier in Greenland. More adventures, honestly, than I'd planned for. So this month, while we work on season two of Search Engine, we're going to play you our favorite four episodes of Crypto Island. I love these stories. I'm so happy to share them with you.
Please enjoy this first one, which takes place fully inside a Sotheby's auction, where two parties are fighting to own this nation's founding document. That's after some ads.
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