I never thought that money could look so big. One afternoon in October 2018, I’d gone to the bank to withdraw £10,000 and a handful of US dollars. I was terrified of getting mugged on my return to BuzzFeed’s UK headquarters, a cavernous modernist office in the heart of London where I worked as a reporter on the investigations team. But once I got back, we all gathered round to marvel at the bricks of lucre. Holding it, fanning it out for photos, watching the notes shimmer and fold over one another.