The Inter-Capitalist Conspiracy of Cryptocurrency

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A venture capitalist claims that he and his fellow Bitcoiners kind of larped a currency into existence. But anyone who would look objectively at the phenomenon of cryptocurrency would say, first of all, that they have not larped it into existence. The reason I think I find these inter-capitalist compelling is they have that belief that they cankind of larp a new reality into being.

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