in general I was good at writing about scams. I liked figuring out how con men were exploiting legal loopholes, unraveling their tricky contracts, and tracing their offshore shell corporations. Crypto didn’t hold the same appeal for me. I’d resisted the topic whenever it came up at work. It seemed so obvious. The coins were transparently useless, and people were buying them anyway. A journalist composing a painstaking exposé of a crypto scam seemed like a restaurant critic writing a takedown of Taco Bell.
