For more than a decade bitcoin has managed to supplant itself into mainstream finance growing from zero to hundreds of billions of dollars all while tricking the world into thinking it is an unimportant fad that can be ignored.

Convincing the world to look the other way while bitcoin slowly takes over has been one of its biggest accomplishments.

A decade on and there are still smart economics professors writing bitcoin off as a scam and a joke.

There has never before existed a trojan horse so large. By the time people realise bitcoin is a serious monetary contender it will have already won.