Full disclosure I work for a firm that's helping launch the next generation of crypto/fiat brokers that will be popping up through out the world the next couple

Full disclosure I work for a firm that's helping launch the next generation of crypto/fiat brokers that will be popping up through out the world the next couple months. My dad is a chip engineer and has personally worked with kurzweil on some of his early ventures. One of his xmas bonus was a kurzweil keyboard that I was forced to learn how to play when I was a child. I remember hearing first hand from my dad and his friends about what was happening. Later on in my undergrad biz school I still had some text books that was written around the boom. Everything was about the new "information highway" and how the "long-tail" will finally be serviced. People were giddy and it being the end of 2017, it is safe to say they were all right to be giddy. I buy a majority of my stuff through apps, able to maintain friendships across the globe and taught myself everything my dad tried to teach me about linux, when I was a child, now online while at work. Being able to freely create a currency that has the necessary legitimacy to actually work while still being able to cleaning integrate with a larger organization is a powerful weapon against getting screwed by globalism and these massive multi-national corporations. Where I call home is a former mill town that got fucked. Having a solid local currency that all the local businesses will recognize will make home much stronger. For this to reach it's potential though, there needs to be massive investment and social change - just like tinder needed fb, websites, emails and fast internet connections to reach a point of maturity, these new digital currencies need a full ecosystem. I don't buy or sell any of these currencies even though it would be ridiculously easy for me to do stuff that would be terribly illegal with stocks. It's because I think there will be a spectacular crash in the short run but in the long run the next FANGS will related to the blockchain and crypto technologies. So hate at your expense.