Bitcoin Spotted At This Year’s Burning Man

So it’s Burning Man time again, and this year one of the ‘art’ installations featured some prominent bitcoin logos. Well, you weren’t expecting physical bitcoins, were you? They’re just to impress no-coiners!

Burning Question

For anyone who doesn’t know, Burning Man is a yearly event in the desert and a global cultural movement.

At least, that’s the multiple choice answer you have to give before they let you buy tickets. The wrong answers: a music festival, a weeklong rave, and a curated commercial experience, are all just there to test how ‘Burning Man’ you really are.

Not everyone buys into this description, however:

They called it Burning Man because gluten intolerant rich white hipsters pretending to be hippies while doing drugs in the desert was too long.

— Sam Kalidi (@samkalidi) August 31, 2018

Burning Your Bra

To be fair, the ‘event’ is based on some noble principles. Ten of them. Kind of like a ten commandments for the flower-power generation, but…