21 st May 2021 3:00 pm The first time I heard the word “Bitcoin” was in 2016, after I asked a classmate from my Chinese course the slightly intrusive question “What do you do for a living?”. He replied he was buying and selling “Bitcoins”, an answer I found puzzling, as I had absolutely no idea about cryptocurrencies. After further explanation, I understood it was a digital currency, the value of which is constantly fluctuating, but you cannot use it to purchase goods or services. I have always been a sceptical person, and so quite naturally deemed Bitcoin as highly suspicious. ...