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English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur is catching heat from fans after it announced a major new partnership deal with controversial fan token creator Socios, reports The Times. According to the club, the team-up will “provide fans worldwide with access to a unique range of club-related activities, rewards and experiences.” Tokens will reportedly be handed out for free to season ticket holders and club members, while non-members will have to pay $2 per coin. However, the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust has voiced concerns that the project will not only be charging fans to engage with their club but will “encourage fans to enter a cryptocurrency ecosystem of which many will have little knowledge.” “It is important there should be no financial or technological barriers to fan engagement,” the trust says, “ yet this relationship potentially creates both .” While potentially very lucrative, fan tokens, which give supporters the power to vote in club polls and enter...

Although cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) have existed for nearly 15 years now, the idea of their existence was born long before, as evident from the statements made by the late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman in an interview published 30 years ago. Specifically, Friedman, who won the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and the complexity of stabilization policy, praised the invention of the internet back in 1993 in a video shared by the X user DocumentingBTC on September 21. Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman predicted #bitcoin 30 years ago.pic.twitter.com/rLRmXSlBqq — Documenting ₿itcoin (@DocumentingBTC) September 21, 2023 As it happens, crypto analyst Dennis Parker originally shared the video back on February 3, 2018, when the interview itself was about 25 years old. As the famous economist explained at the time: “The internet is going to make it very diffic...