Bitcoin is more than premium bonds for hipsters or the veganism of finance, writes Omar Hamdi.
Bitcoin: everyone is talking about it – even (maybe especially) people who don’t know anything about it.
Bitcoin, the world’s first digital currency, is all things to all people. To some lefties, it is akin to the proletariat planting the seeds of revolution in those parts of the internet where the elite forgot to sprinkle their weedkiller. For rightwing Infowars fans, it is the nativist ‘taking back control’ from the elite financial institutions with their ‘globalist’ agenda.
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