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The Greek finance minister who managed a hat economy

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When the digital trading of cosmetic sniper hats gets so complex that you need a macroeconomic PhD to stabilize it, you've peaked as a video game company. Valve hired Yanis Varoufakis, who later became the actual Finance Minister of Greece, to manage the terrifyingly robust, unregulated, multi-million dollar virtual economies operating within their game servers. Virtual headwear proved to be serious business.

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