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Bitcoin does cultural diplomacy in a dive bar

Bitcoin culture, by nature, is anarchical and chaotic. It has to be, given the nature of Bitcoin itself and the people who adopted it: free-market libertarians who’ve gone all in on turning computer code into a form of money divorced from central banks, government intervention, and traceability. In short, it’s the exact opposite culture of Washington, DC, home of the federal government, where everyone agrees that the American dollar exists and is worth X amount because the government says so.

So it was a bizarre shock to K Street, the corporate lobbying heart of the nation’s capital, when it was announced that Pubkey, a Bitcoin-themed dive …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/849133/pubkey-dc-opening-bitcoin-bar

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/849133/pubkey-dc-opening-bitcoin-bar

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