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[–] BioMan@awful.systems 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The foursome had been on the lot for a few months when the pandemic struck in March 2020. That same month, the price of Bitcoin — in which most of Borhanian’s life savings was invested, money that was covering much of the group’s expenses at that time — cratered. Soon after, the four of them stopped paying rent to Lind altogether.

Aella also lost much of her early earnings on crypto.

Curtis Lind reminds me of the businessman who supported Elron early on and lost most of his money.

The end where Gwen Danielson decides that Yudkowsky is ~~her~~ their savior is tragic.

edit/ The article describes Danielson as transfemme but refers to them as them so I will do the same