Okay, this week our story for you, it's really one of my favorite pieces I have worked on.

What had happened was we made this entire series about crypto currency, and one of the questions

that a lot of people kept asking but which I felt a little

underequipped to answer was what about the environment what about

cryptocurrency's effect on climate? Stories about climate are really hard to tell.

Pretty much everybody worries about climate change,

but the promise of a story

is that you might feel differently when it's over.

And climate change stories,

it's like all they can promise is either you'll feel

dreadful, you'll feel confused by science, or I guess depending on which website

you're on these days, maybe you'll be convinced it isn't real. So we wanted to try to

find a way to tell a story about the planet that captured what it feels like to try to look at the problem, like really look at it, but with humor and feeling and history and just whatever elements we didn't think you would expect to find in a story like this.

So this is at the finale of our crypto island series.

One of the pieces I've gotten to work on that I'm most proud of.

I hope you like it. If you're unable to tell the day, we will have to get check your bag to your final destination.

Act 1, Diversions. August 12, 2022. I was sitting at the airport, delayed flight, a red eye getting redder.

I was thinking, as I so often do, about the inventor of Bitcoin,

Satoshi Nakamoto, and the white paper where he laid out how Bitcoin would work.

I was at the airport because of that white paper, actually because of what I consider to be

a pretty crucial flaw in it.

A flaw that like a bad piece of code had replicated itself over and over, helping

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