The first LGBT cryptocurrency bets on ‘changing the world’

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Maricoin CEO Francisco Álvarez Cano, 48, poses next to the world’s first LGBT+ cyptocurrency’s logo in Madrid, Spain. (Photo: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Handout by Fede Grau)

It might sound like a marketing gimmick, but the founders of the first LGBT+ cryptocurrency said they want to harness the community’s economic power with the aim of “changing the world”.

The maricoin, a play on words taken from a…