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Vancouver’s SkyTrain is now Bitcoin-powered

By: Ashi, senior writer for imaginary infrastructure  In a move described by aides as “inevitable, visionary, and definitely not a parody of governance,” mayor Ken Sim announced Thursday that Vancouver’s SkyTrain system is soon to be powered entirely by Bitcoin. Not metaphorically. Not financially, even. The trains, he says, will now run on pure belief.  Sim, a self-described financial expert, takes his job as the city’s unofficial Bitcoin mascot rather seriously. In fact, this long-time evangelist for crypto solutions to non-crypto problems has previously appeared on at least seven YouTube channels dedicated to Bitcoin, spoken at the Virgo Crypto Summit,…

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