The 2008 financial crisis had just collapsed the global economy. Many banks failed and subsequently the housing markets crashed beneath us. Ordinary people lost their homes while institutions got bailouts. Bitcoin was the response — a financial system that could not be manipulated by the people who broke the one that exists. What I find most amusing is the irony that the housing crash created crypto and now we are using crypto to rebuild access to housing. Why? Because seventeen years later, ...

The 2008 financial crisis had just collapsed the global economy. Many banks failed and subsequently the housing markets crashed beneath us. Ordinary people lost their homes while institutions got bailouts. Bitcoin was the response — a financial system that could not be manipulated by the people who broke the one that exists. What I find most amusing is the irony that the housing crash created crypto and now we are using crypto to rebuild access to housing. Why? Because seventeen years later, ...