To me, context is about pattern recognition.

It's connecting the dots.

It's giving readers an ability to synthesize

a number of different perspectives

so they can understand how the greater whole works,

because nothing really occurs in isolation anymore.

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I'm Jill Wiesenthal.

And I'm Tracy Allaway.

Tracy, did you like it the other day

when you tweeted something and then I just stole your idea and wrote about it in a newsletter.

I wasn't actually trying to insinuate that Joe. I just thought it was funny. I thought it was a mind-melld from like 3,000 miles away. I'm not that

arrogant that I would have assumed that you had actually read my tweet given that I

think I tweeted it at like midnight your time in New York.

I do miss a lot of your tweets because we're on such different time zones.

But for those who are listening and don't know the context behind it, there was a very interesting story in the crypto world this

week where a major exchange, a major crypto exchange called Benance. They delisted a coin

causing the price of that coin to fall and it raises all kinds of

questions about who really holds power in the crypto world and questions about

decentralization and centralized because how decentralized can anything be if one exchange can come along and say,

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