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Man Has Been Living In Laundromat For 5 Years, Says Place Allows Him To “Exist Without Purpose”

When Sampson Dahl was looking for an apartment to rent in New York City, he stumbled upon a former laundromat on an online forum that caught his eye. His girlfriend at the time labeled the place, located in Maspeth, Queens, “disgusting,” but Sampson didn’t care. In 2019, he moved in and began calling it his home.At the time, he was paying $1,850 a month— his rent has since increased to $1,900, according to CNBC.On average, he pays $120 for electricity and $60 for internet.A former tenant of the place—which stopped…

“These Are Not Laundromat Tokens” — The End of The Crypto Wild West

Laundromat Tokens. That’s what Gary Gensler, Chair of the SEC, compared the state of cryptocurrency to.no cash value — technically crypto has none! (bad joke, sorry) The wild west of crypto, as we know it, is coming to an end.Since Bitcoin’s inception in 2009, the confusion around whether cryptocurrencies were actually currencies or not has remained up in the air. While the original intention was to have a cashless method of payment without any middlemen — time dictated otherwise.By the time Ethereum rolled around in…