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Andy Greenberg: Well, I have to admit that I am in some sense

  Andy Greenberg: Well, I have to admit that I am in some sense  a part of it, Mike. I wrote the first print magazine piece about bitcoin in 2011—thankfully, in some sense, not for WIRED magazine. I worked at Forbes magazine at the time. I covered this world of anonymity and hackers and surveillance, and I came upon this new phenomenon. Bitcoin was described to me as a kind of untraceable, anonymous digital cash for the internet. I was talking with  some of the first bitcoin developers, and even Satoshi Nakamoto, this mysterious creator of bitcoin, had written in this email to a cryptography mailing list that, among other things, participants can be anonymous in this new cryptocurrency world that he or she or whoever they are was describing. So I wrote this first piece in 2011, and I did describe in this Forbes piece how this seemed to be a kind of  untraceable digital cash. You could put unmarked bills in a briefcase and send them across the internet to anybody with...
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“The Way of Water” continues to perform

  “The Way of Water” continues to perform  especially strongly overseas, where its $27.9 million this weekend pushed its overall total to $2.17 billion worldwide. That puts it at fourth highest gross of all-time; Cameron — with two “Avatar” films and “Titanic” — now accounts for three of the top four. “BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas” took in $5.1 million to land in fifth place. The BTS concert film is drawn from their October 2022 performance in Busan, South Korea — a send-off show before the group began a two-year hiatus. It opened in 1,111 locations. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday. 1. “Knock at the Cabin,” $14.2 million. 2. “80 for Brady,” $12.5 million. 3. “Avatar: The Way of Water,” $10.8 million. 4. “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” $8 million. 5. “BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas,” $5.1 million. 6. “A Man Called Otto,” $4.2 million. 7. “M3gan,” $3.8 million. 8. “...
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