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Bed Time Finance History & Stories

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The Teenager Who Hacked the Pentagon Then Got Hired by Microsoft 27.11.2025 1:14

At 15 years old he broke into the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, and the Korean Atomic Research Institute… just to see if he could. The FBI raided his house at gunpoint. Six months later Microsoft paid him $1 million a year to do the exact same thing — legally. The unbelievable true story of hacker legend George Hotz (aka “geohot”).

The Birth of Paper Money 27.11.2025 2:32

From 1668 to 1971, one private bank in Sweden printed money that was more trusted than government cash. People preferred it. Governments hated it. Counterfeiters copied it. This is the unbelievable true story of how a stockbroker named Johan Palmstruch accidentally invented paper money — and changed the world forever.

The Youngest Self Made Billionaire Who Deleted all his Wealth 27.11.2025 2:24

He built the biggest messaging app in history (bigger than WhatsApp at its peak). Forbes called him the youngest self-made billionaire ever. Then, in one click, he deleted the entire company worth $8 billion and walked away with nothing. This is the insane true story of Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s brother, Nikolay Durov, and the app called VK — and why money meant nothing to him.