Bitcoin: the bewildering illusion of easy wealth

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  • Fabrizio Pezzani Bocconi University,Via Roentgen, 20135 Milano, Italy.

Abstract

Once again the manufacturers of dreams and cotton candy are at work, finding fertile Despite its clearly virtual origin, bitcoin has become a trap of mythological finance capable of deluding all as easily achievable, but absolutely uncertain,wealth that will end in drama, as the financial and speculative bubbles taught us, and as evidenced by history and the facts, but obscured by the infinite greed of the King Midas syndrome . ". As always, the unfathomable capacity of human psychology to be drawn into the drama by a subtle, and in this case, invisible thread remains an enigmaground in which to throw the magic hook wisely trafficked as possibility and truth; the term "cryptocurrency" itself contributes to giving it an esoteric qualification, reminiscent of the dream of the "philosopher's stone".

Author Biography

Fabrizio Pezzani, Bocconi University,Via Roentgen, 20135 Milano, Italy.

Bocconi University,Via Roentgen, 20135 Milano, Italy.

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2018-01-30

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