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 ... had turned Peanut into a meme coin ...

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 ... some anonymous party had turned ...

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.