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...just a poster boy for the “meme stock” generation of investors, who have spent the past couple of years looking for big quick wins from buying and selling undervalued stocks or hyping and dumping crypto coins...
...And what’s especially lucky is that personification of the blockchain has given unto us a literal blockhead....
...Mobile connections were 3G, if you were lucky. Nokia’s Symbian operating system was still dominant, but forecasters suggested 2010 would be the year of Android....
...And in any case, making the right call on a coin toss 15 times in a row is so unlikely as to show that something more than luck is at work....
...At the same time, retail investors have bought record amounts of bullion coins....
...Finally, while competitors, such as the UK’s SubSea Resources, have yet to strike it lucky, Odyssey has a track record. In 2003 it recovered $75m in coins from the 1864 wreck of SS Republic....
...Michael Gerson helped coin the phrase “axis of evil” while serving as a speechwriter for George W. Bush from 2002 to 2005....
...In an overlooked announcement, European finance ministers decided this week that all coins should now bear the name of the issuing country to distinguish them....
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