Why Bitcoin is far more than just a new form of money
Bitcoin concerns everyone — not just finance gurus and IT nerds
In the film «The Matrix», the hero must choose between swallowing the blue or the red pill. The blue one makes him forget; the red one reveals the truth about the world. Drawing on this analogy, Bitcoin is called «the orange pill» — because anyone who engages with it becomes aware of the power Wall Street and central banks hold over our world. And Bitcoin promises liberation from that power: it is independent of central institutions such as banks and cannot be manipulated by them. Mangold — a literary critic himself — recounts with knowledge and passion how even he fell under Bitcoin's spell, and why it is not merely a digital currency, but a system of freedom and justice.