Walk past Aleix Ripol on the streets of Barcelona and you’re probably not giving him a second look. That’s not a dig on his looks — he’s a perfectly attractive white guy in a denim shirt and Clark Kent glasses, just like a sizable segment of the tech sector. But like Clark Kent, our man Ripol, a sociologist and web page designer, leads something of a double life. His alter ego? Cryptocurrency rebel.
“There is a militant profile to many of us,” says Ripol, president of the Barcelona Bitcoin Community, an association of enthusiasts. “With the crisis, they told us banks were too big to fail, and we realized we needed an alternative.”
" Thought bitcoin was dying out faster than your grandmother’s obscure Ukrainian dialect? Think again."
http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/how-spanish-nerds-are-sticking-it-to-the-man/63133
