# Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto's Nouveau Riche

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## What Jamie wrote

Crypto-currency boat cruise? No thanks.

> I understand why people might want to hire a boat and stuff it with investors: to make money. This cruise measures its takings in old-school pounds and dollars. None of the ship’s bars take bitcoin—fittingly, the only thing you can do with it here is gamble. What I don’t understand is why anyone thought this would make the whole thing look less like a Ponzi scheme with a sleazy post-cyberpunk aesthetic.

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