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 housing market is more locked than ever with average deposits have tripling and first-time buyer ages keep climbing.

The system that broke in 2008 was rebuilt to benefit the same people it always benefited.

We think crypto can do something different this time. Property ownership that is accessible, and does not require permission from the institutions that failed us before.

Happy birthday, Bitcoin.

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 housing market is more locked than ever with average deposits have tripling and first-time buyer ages keep climbing.

The system that broke in 2008 was rebuilt to benefit the same people it always benefited.

We think crypto can do something different this time. Property ownership that is accessible, and does not require permission from the institutions that failed us before.

Happy birthday, Bitcoin.