Crypto, through the tulips

Crypto, through the tulips
David Chaplin
Let’s get envy out of the way.I am, of course, jealous of the bitcoin billionaires who turned sprinklings of digital fairy-dust into life-changing real money.If only I’d bought bucket-loads of the so-called ‘crypto-currency’ at 9 cents (US, mind) in 2009 instead of making fun of it in print for a few lousy dollars (NZ).Who’s laughing now, right? I could be cruising in my Lambo past all the no-coiners scurrying through the filthy streets to their dead-end paid-in-fiat currency jobs.Papal steerBut I now have charity,...

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