Ah yes, an amazing source where you can only read it if you're duped into signing up for a 12 month commitment to them for the pleasure of watching your pocket book sucked dry.

Both the /lore page and the wikipedia article provides more information about it for free than the NYT does.

Thanks! I tried clicking around the various links and nothing seemed to happen apart from popups trying to get me to enter my wallet information, so I assumed it was just some kind of crypto-scam leaderboard.

I've now read the other article, and it's fascinating. Somehow I missed the story about the arrest and this album at the time...