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The British Museum | Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and their 17th century counterpart I Curator's Corner S4 Ep3 #CuratorsCorner @britishmuseum | Uploaded 5 years ago | Updated 13 hours ago
Using a rather fine example of a monkey smoking a pipe and the 'Fisher Price bubble lawn mower of the bitcoin world', Ben Alsop looks at the history of unofficial currency from 17th century shopkeepers' tokens to cryptocurrencies.

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