A crypto skeptic guide: The Church of Bitcoin

In the fourth episode of the latest season of Tech Tonic, the FT columnist and moderator Jemima Kelly deals with the ongoing faith of cryptocurrency. What do Bitcoin supporters really believe and persistently adheres to it? Make Coin cult? Jemima immerses a myth formation around the mysterious Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto and the belief systems that underpin cryptoland. We hear from the Banken and FinTech correspondent of the FT, Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, the crypto investor Nic Carter, the Bitcoin-Abbünnigen Aviv Milner and Amanda Montell, author of Kultisch: The language of fanatism.

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Siddhart Venkataramakrishnan and Robin Wigglesworth about the Kryptokult https://www.ft.com/content/9e7670-6a7-479-934f-f4a9fedf4829

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presented by Jemima Kelly. Special thanks this week to Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, the FT's bank and Fintech correspondent. The senior producer of Tech Tonic is Edwin Lane, our producer is Josh Gabert-Doyon and Manuela Saragosa is a producer. Our sound engineer is Breen Turner, with original music by Metaphor Music. The head of the FT audio department is Cheryl Brumley.

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