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Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion?

  • Written by Joseph P. Laycock, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion?Some Bitcoin evangelists see the currency as an answer to problems that plague society.mustafa akman/iStock via Getty Images

Read enough about Bitcoin, and you’ll inevitably come across people who refer to the cryptocurrency as a religion.

Bloomberg’s Lorcan Roche Kelly called Bitcoin “the first true religion of the 21st...

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