Daniel Terdiman game development advisor for US National Public Radio (NPR) for the Talk of the Nation broadcast and for the BBC in the UK. He edited and contributed as an author to "" (), a 2002 book about the annual Burning Man arts festival, held in the Nevada Desert. He wrote "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life: Making Money in the Metaverse" (). He was the panel moderator at the Game Developers' Conference 2007, on the topic of Burning Man. He holds a Masters of Science degree in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He currently works as
Money burning which Aristippus had when he did so." Since around 2015 the UK has experienced a surge of interest in money burning. This has been noted in both the book 'The Mysterium' and in a 'Kindred Spirit' article that is reprinted in International Times. There is also a UK based magazine 'Burning Issue' that claims to be "for money burners and other destroyers of currency". An annual Mass Burn Event - where people are invited to burn money - is held at the Cockpit Theatre in London every autumn. Publicly burning money can be an act of protest or a kind