The Genesis
Halloween day, 2008: The financial world is still reeling from the implications of the Great Financial Crisis. Lehman Brothers went belly up, the stock market was cut in half and the word ‘bailout’ began infiltrating media airwaves across the globe for the first time. Unbeknownst to 99.99% of the population, the future of money had forever changed. On this date, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper into the public domain. Within 2 months, the Bitcoin genesis block was mined, ushering in a new era of currency.
The Big Leagues (2020-Current)
Over the past 13 years, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been widely contested by governments, politicians, media pundits, economists, and speculators from all over the globe. This stems from its infamously volatile price action, misconceptions around perceived criminal activity usage, and a general misunderstanding of what this new technology is and what it aims to solve.
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