“To me, contextualized within the diversity of forms of money over the last four millennia, the laptop and the cryptocurrency it represents look less like a radical departure from the past and instead like a continuation of human beings defining and redefining value relative to the world around them,” the curator wrote in Smithsonian Magazine.
On Monday, Heather Morgan—who also goes by her rap alias “Razzlekhan”—was sentenced to 18 months in U.S. federal prison, for her role in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. Prosecutors recommended that Morgan deserved a much lighter sentence compared to her husband Ilya Lichtenstein, who stole the 119,000 BTC in 2016 and years later asked Mo