This week the Kingdom of Thailand announced its major regulators would team up in order to better educate its people about the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, openly worrying it might be a Ponzi scheme. This comes after its central bank issued reminders the digital asset was not legal tender. And so The Year of Bitcoin extends globally as Thailand’s always-bustling tourism industry, its attempt to grapple with financial technology (fintech) through regulations, and an unbanked population looking for a better life make the country fertile ground for crypto.