In just 7 years, Peanut the Squirrel went from being an anonymous street rodent, to a famous influencer, to a billion dollar cryptocurrency. His story is a parable of the modern attention economy.

ALEXI HOROWITZ-GHAZI, BYLINE: Mark Longo was working as a building inspector in Manhattan back in 2017, when he came across an orphaned baby squirrel in the middle of ... party had turned Peanut into ...

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