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Terrific book: The Man Who Stole Portugal by Murray Bloom. Tells the details and how he did it. Fun read!
I listened to the podcast version of this Damn Interesting post: https://www.damninteresting.com/devouring-the-heart-of-portu...
That's wild! Feels similar to some of the crypto scams going around wrt stable coins.
There is a conman who tried claiming to by Bitcoin's creator that got laughed off the stage when his 'proof' turned out to be fake. He went on to create his own Bitcoin clone, and now financed by ex-DHS-most-wanted Antiguan ambassador is now trying to substitute the clone for the real thing through a series of lawsuits and by trying to destroy the real thing by suing for billions of dolllars any open source developer…