Investing in the stock market can be very profitable. Especially if you can see into the future. This is a story of how a group of traders and hackers got together to figure out a way to see into the future and make a lot of money from that.
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Attribution
Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.
Editing by Damienne. Assembled by Tristan Ledger.
Episode artwork by odibagas.
Mixing by Proximity Sound.
Theme music created by Breakmaster Cylinder. Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp. Or listen to it on Spotify.
Equipment
Recording equipment used this episode was the Shure SM7B, Zoom Podtrak P4, Sony MDR7506, in the Hindenburg editor.
Transcript
[START OF RECORDING]
JACK: The stock market; this is where you can go buy part of a company and hope the value of that company goes up so your part is worth more, but it’s a big risk. Predicting the future is hard. Even the most educated and well-researched people who spend their whole life focusing on finance get it wrong a large part of the time. Some think they have it all figured out though, like Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street. Here’s a clip from the film.