Can the OG crypto win over Gen-Z before it’s too late?
Bitcoin started its life as a rank outsider. It didn’t emerge from Silicon Valley ingenuity or the boardrooms of central banks. Rather, Bitcoin’s arrival in the fallout of the Great Financial Crisis was both perfectly timed and profoundly subversive.
A whitepaper posted to a cypherpunk mailing list by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto pitched a peer-to-peer payment network that could bypass the compromised machinery of post-2008 finance.
Bitcoin was “F-you money,” a pure play against bailouts, bank failures, and central planning. Early adopters saw themselves as digital renegades, building the rails for a new kind of freedom money. Uncensored, borderless, and untethered by the whims of officials and the failures of ageing…
