Izmir, Turkey – January 14, 2018: Memorial bitcoin among gold bars. Bitcoin is a worldwide digital currency that isn’t controlled by a central authority such as a government or bank.
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These days, the only players expressing interest in bitcoin are those that bought at the top and are now left carrying the bag, along with institutions that, in a corporate sense, did much the same.
Bitcoin just ain’t bitcoin anymore. The digital currency – supposedly independent of the predators of Wall Street, untraceable and a panacea of all the poor man’s ills – is no longer a way to stick it to the man.
The man in fact, is a fan – bigly!
Even denizens of crypto who made fortunes from it are now having to dig into their own pockets to bail…
