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Three things that have vanished: $3.6bn in Bitcoin, a crypto investment biz, and the two brothers who ran it

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Someone's been trying to remember where that form of ritual apology came from. Somewhere in a pile of forty year's worth of Analog magazine, I suspect. Thanks for the author!

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