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With no access to crypto, disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is now trading fish to pay for services in prison (www.businessinsider.com)
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With no access to crypto, disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is now trading fish to pay for services in prison::Sam Bankman-Fried is now using mackerel fish as a means of exchange with other prisoners.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I get that it's replaced cigs as the currency but my question I guess is... Why mackerel? You can't just store multiple mackerel over time because it'll just go off

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd assumed it was tinned, that shit lasts forever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Futurama taught me this