Crypto is not money. It will never be. When it falls, it won’t be pretty – The Irish Times
In the Divine Comedy, Dante reserved one of his most ghastly punishments for the crime of forgery. In Canto 30 of the Inferno, a counterfeiter Adamo is condemned to the eighth circle of hell, just one above Lucifer in the ninth. In this Canto, Dante and Virgil, his guide through the underworld, meet two falsifiers, one of whom is the unfortunate Adamo, a real-life counterfeiter who in Dante’s youth had tried to debase the Florentine florin. Adam lived in Brescia, a city in competition with Florence, where he was persuaded by prosperous Brescian merchants to debase the florin by replacing three carats of the pure gold coin with copper. The coin weighed almost the same but it was a fake. Dante pairs Adam with another liar, Simon the…
