How do the world’s major religions view Bitcoin and cryptocurrency?

Bitcoin might seem like a religion to some — but how do the world’s major religions view cryptocurrency and what can they teach us about it?

Since the invention of money, the major religions of the world have grappled with its effect on human morality, the unequal distribution of wealth, and the indignities of poverty.

Through money, even the incorruptible can become corrupted, said the 19th-century Hasidic rabbi Menachem Mendel Kotzk

Therefore, if they desire to invest their money, let them exercise diligent care lest they be snatched by cupidity, the source of all evil, wrote Pope Benedict XIV in a 1749 encyclical.

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