Re:South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6B in Bitco...
by jsrcout on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:23PM
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George Byron Merrick's book Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 [0] has a fascinating chapter on how people got rich on wildcat banking swindles.
[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47262