(UPDATE July 6th, 2022: this series will continue over at Substack, though I’ll probably also post links to new stuff here on Medium if you don’t like Substack) Last night a Twitter account that I did not recognize asked me to interpret a cryptocurrency exchange graph for them. Doing so took me down a long, dark, and disorienting road. I strolled through databases, pawed through exchange data, and browsed the blockchain. Eventually it dawned on me:Cryptocurrencies have created a hecto-billion...