Alpesh B Patel OBEManaging Partner (UK), RootBridge Capital · Asset Management. Great Investments Programme. 18 Books, Bloomberg TV alum & FT Columnist, BBC Paper Reviewer; Fmr Visiting Fellow, Oxford Uni. Multi-TEDx. UK Govt Dealmaker. alpeshpatel.com/links Pro

Crypto: Faith, Art, or The Next Big Thing? #shorts

6 Apr 2026 · 0 min

Watch on YouTube

0:25

In this brief monologue, the speaker argues that the community of cryptocurrency believers functions like believers in Santa Claus, God, or modern art—holding onto faith regardless of objective truth. He suggests that the persistence of crypto belief is independent of whether the technology is real or valuable, emphasizing that belief itself sustains the phenomenon.

it will at some point. There's enough crypto believers out there that it will at some point, just as there are enough people who believe in Santa Claus out there that you will still get little boys sitting on Santa's knee every Christmas. The same thing with crypto, whether it's real or not doesn't matter any more than in many ways it matters whether God is real or not. The believers believe in crypto just as they believe in modern art.