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Bannon wasn't just spreading hate and grifting gold, he was running a multimillion Goldman's Sachs venture in third party online micro transactions:
https://www.wired.com/2008/11/ff-ige/
Can't get any crazier right?
You might recognize the CEO Bannon took over from, is the child actor that played Young Gordan Bombay in the Mighty Ducks...
And honestly, I'm like 99% sure it's what started crypto in the first place. The oligarchs got a hit of digital money they control with almost zero oversight, and a couple years later crypto started popping up.
That article is 2008, and the first Bitcoin was created January 2009.