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Why Are Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey Teaching Bitcoin to Poor Kids?

LATE-STAGE CAPITALISM

The billionaire entrepreneurs are enrolling people from Brooklyn’s Marcy Houses in The Bitcoin Academy, including kids as young as 5, to teach them about crypto.

Kyndall Cunningham
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