There’s a bitcoin rapper called CoinDaddy, and he’s just one of the fantastic characters in San Francisco’s bizarre crypto culture

A former real estate agent who decided to combine his passion for cryptocurrency with his musical aspirations, Coindaddy is one of the motley crew of individuals in San Francisco’s burgeoning, bizarre crypto culture chronicled in a fascinating article by the New York Times’ Nellie Bowles.

Among the others in this surreal cast of characters is a mixed martial arts fighter that discovered cryptocurrencies through his passion for “vintage pornography,” and a 26-year-old who cradles a cat named Mr. Bigglesworth and claims to be sitting on a crypto fortune worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Many of these crypto die-hards live or frequent a three-story home known as the Crypto Castle, which was profiled by Business Insider in January 2017.