For the past six months, 27-year-old Yang has worked mainly from home, mainly from his sofa, tracking and trading bitcoin, and watching the money roll in. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Huai Yang, who trades bitcoin from his sofa Photograph: Naomi Goddard for the GuardianThere’s certainly big money to be made in bitcoin, but it comes at a high risk. Chenxing, a boyish, skittish 35, has been trading bitcoin for the past four months, after giving up his “too comfortable” job as a geo-information engineer for the government. Brendan Gibson, 32, is a United States national who has been in China for six years, trading bitcoin for three. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brendan Gibson: ‘I’m just kind of fed up with the system.’ Photograph: Naomi Goddard for the GuardianFor Gibson, bitcoin is a way of life.

Source: The Guardian April 11, 2017 06:00 UTC