CRYPTO INSIDER: Steve Bannon wants to make a 'deplorable coin'

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Steve Bannon wants in on the cryptocurrency craze.

Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist and the former head of the website Breitbart, has invested in bitcoin and is making plans to dive into the cryptocurrency markets with a group of academics at Harvard to launch a new cryptocurrency called "deplorables coin.

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