It’s 2014 and millions of Scots head to the polling station to decide on the future of Scotland, but one Edinburgh-based entrepreneur, Derek Nisbet, is looking beyond the referendum result.
Worried about the country’s uncertain future, Nesbit has come up with a solution for a stable post-referendum economy – cryptocurrency.
His brainchild Scotcoin is designed to help the transition between Sterling and a future Scottish currency. However, when 45 per cent of the country vote against independence, his project gradually becomes too ambitious to handle.
In 2016, left as “just a one-man band”, businessmen Temple Melville and David Low “bought him [Nesbit] out”, Melville tells Holyrood.
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