The Day I Bought the School newsletter
SITEC TOKEN: The Day I Bought the School The bell for third-period Economics was the soundtrack of my life’s misery. Mr. Dunphy’s voice was a flat, droning hum, like a fridge you can’t unhear. He was drawing supply and demand curves on the board, his chalk squeaking in a way that felt personally aggressive. I slumped in my chair, my phone a forbidden, warm rectangle in my pocket. My best friend, Leo, was doing the same thing three rows over. We were experts in the art of looking engaged while being a million miles away. That’s when I saw it. Not in a spam email or a sketchy pop-up, but in a forum thread buried deep in CoinHarbor, a crypto subreddit I lurked on to feel smarter than I was. The thread was titled: SITEC TOKEN: The Digital Deed to Real-World Places. Most of it was the usual crypto gibberish—whitepapers, roadmaps, “disrupting the paradigm.” But one sentence, posted by a user named Architect_01, glowed on my screen: “Phase 1 Test: Tokenizing Mundane Locations for Community Go...