Crypto (short for cryptocurrency) is a new form of digital money powered by cryptography. It all started in 2008 with Bitcoin. You could use it to send funds to anyone anywhere globally. What made crypto different from normal bank transfers or other financial services like Paypal or Alipay is that there was no middleman for the first time. Wait, what is a middleman? A middleman is a central authority like a bank or government that intervenes in a transaction between the sender and recipient. ...