You Don’t Understand Bitcoin Because You Think Money Is Real

U.S. dollars is just an illusion more widely and fiercely believed

Maria Bustillos
GEN
Published in
8 min readNov 30, 2017

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BBitcoin is an illusion, a mass hallucination, so one hears. It’s just numbers in cyberspace, a mirage, insubstantial as a soap bubble. Bitcoin is not backed by anything other than the faith of the fools who buy it and of the greater fools who buy it…

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Maria Bustillos
GEN
Writer for

is a journalist and editor of Popula.com, an alt-global news and culture publication experimenting with blockchain-based publishing innovations.