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Being solely digital in nature does not change the value if the item itself sees mass use and has a limited supply. Computers are a major part of the entire modern world; we can barely function without them anymore. So it’s really no shock that the next logical step is to fully cross our financial services into a world that we increasingly exist in and are becoming more dependent on.\n\nLogically, this transition is a next step in the digital revolution. However, the question remains: Why would we use this over money that is backed by governments and banks that give us a perception of \"safety\"? Well, the real question you should be asking is WHY do banks and government give you safety? The answer is, of course, they remove a lot of the doubt involved between transactions, forcing both parties to be honest, and we pay them a rather large middleman fee to do so. So, how does crypto make us any safer than historic foundations of monetary governance? It is because crypto doesn't need them! They're now outdated whether we realize it or not. There is no longer the threat of someone not paying, not keeping their end of the bargain. The core of crypto is distributed ledger technology (DLT), which simply removes the need for any middleman. DLT allows us to eliminate an incredible amount of fees from agencies and organizations that currently exist to simply take a portion of profits off people to ensure what DLT does by design. Considering many of the same economists that are the most vocal about crypto being a fraud work for those organizations, we can hardly expect them to be honest in their assessments of crypto, can we?\n\n<center>![banker-smoking.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPoaHKwdFx1JgA6p2KQYDCtqcs2QuWPxJDEbstyuzvzM7/banker-smoking.jpg)</center>\n\n<center>We only want to protect you from scams, I promise!</center>\n\nCrypto enables individuals or entities to directly interact with other people and businesses on a global scale, much the same way citizens in the U.S. might with USD. This direct interaction is one of the largest points often ignored when discussing why people would use crypto. But what about paper notes? Wouldn't it be silly to give up those currencies that we can already exchange with each other for goods and services? Getting caught up in that logic, we miss the key difference of letting everyone in the world, no matter where they are physically located, directly interact with each other in the exact same way two locals would with their fiat currency – a direct exchange. \n\nTo reiterate, with crypto, people anywhere in the world can interact in a fiscal way with no middleman fees, no need for currency exchanges, and no fear of fraud, the latter of which is an ongoing issue for countries that still primarily use paper notes. All of this results in a system that is often faster, safer, and cheaper for individuals and businesses to use in place of traditional monetary systems. Services being able to quickly and easily offer themselves anywhere in the world is incredible, and solves countless red tape issues. And all of these changes will pass on massive discounts to the consumer. \n\nThis brings us to the last point we have to discuss: the volatile nature of crypto being a handicap for real-world adoption. But it's actually far easier to explain than you would think. The volatility in crypto will vanish as its adoption rate continues to go up, as more users use crypto platforms every day, and as coins get deluded down to smaller and smaller amounts, until, finally, the average holder only uses or holds a few coins at a time for the cost of services that various cryptos offer. It's here where people fail to realize why this is so different than a new stock. Crypto is a change of a world currency, not just a new technology. Every time in history a world currency has changed, massive volatility has always been at the forefront for a short period of time – and often with these changes comes a large transfer of wealth.\n\n<center>![greek.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYg4HtshQQvcMX3WNsZLYQY4xCXE6Vjfav4BZpKSdFBK4/greek.jpg)</center>\n\n<center>Look, all we’re saying is Greek Drachmas will always be used over the Roman Denarius; <br>it’s simply unproven!</center>\n\nThis is one of the major steps towards a far more peaceful world, as the more we have to lose and gain from our neighbors, the less likely we are to want to shoot missiles at each other. The sooner we realize what crypto really is all about and what it means for everyone, the sooner we can start working towards the future – even if we have to drag the rest of the world kicking and screaming into it.\n\nBT\n\n\n\n[https://www.ironwoodresearchgroup.com/](https://www.ironwoodresearchgroup.com/)\n[https://twitter.com/Ironwood_RG](https://twitter.com/Ironwood_RG)\n[https://www.facebook.com/IronwoodRG/](https://www.facebook.com/IronwoodRG/)\n[https://www.instagram.com/ironwood_rg/](https://www.instagram.com/ironwood_rg/)",
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      "body": "<center>Chicken Little and Bitcoin Brittle</center>\n\n<center>![image4.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYUJtgKoRH7GkxPK7aFEWwzoN17bX4XViYXcdAF9UCZEg/image4.jpg)</center>\n\nIt’s finally happened – this newfangled tech bubble is dead! We all told you it was a bubble and that your fake computer market was never really worth anything. You really only have yourself to blame. Real folks will never value something they can’t hold in their hand as anything but worthless. You kids need to learn that we have a lot of experience, and we know what’s best. This new wave of the “future” was never going to pan out. Now get back to investing your money into real companies, like General Motors or Ford, real American companies that you can count on to make a product you can use!\n\n<center>![image1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPTaJezPPdXfXHZTJticVdiNqsxycWLxUKjRGYH68n9vZ/image1.jpg)</center>\n\nI’m sure many of you have heard this sentiment over these last few weeks from your friends, family, and every financial media source out there. The funny thing about that sentiment is it gives me déjà vu; it’s exactly what I heard from everyone who lost a lot in the dotcom bust. The exact same FUD you see going out in waves over everything related to crypto is the same as it was during the dotcom burst. You see how that turned out, don't you? Those comments seem not only foolish but almost malicious in nature to anyone who happened to listen to them.\n\nReality comes sweeping back to us when we take a look at the market as a whole. While the dotcom crash was a major reality for the 21st century, [48% of companies survived](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23proto.html), with many still around to this day. We now know that the internet was not just fairy dust, but is a technology that changed nearly every facet of the world. Many useless and bloated companies died a hard death because they simply didn’t offer any real use, nor did they make anyone money. Given that the entire point of a company existing is to generate revenue, it doesn't take an economist to see why so many companies went belly up in the dotcom burst.\n\nOut of the terrible despair that was the early 2000s, many companies emerged to become dominant world leaders in the tech space. They did so by offering services and products that simply performed better, and were far more convenient than traditional technologies that only a decade ago many swore would never be replaced. We even heard the same thing when smartphones were first introduced; “Who would want to use these giant phones with their easy-to-break screens and outrageous prices? Who really wants a personal computer in their pocket at all times?” It turns out the answer is nearly everyone! You can look back in history and hear this same story repeated ad nauseam: “DVDs are too expensive and fragile to replace VHS,” “Cellphones are silly. Home phones are simply cheaper and better,” “Why would we need a computer in our home that doesn't help my family do anything and is outrageously expensive?”\n\nNow, while many of these technology adoptions seem hilarious in hindsight, the one thing that they all share in common is this simple defining factor: all of the FUD they had leveled against them was done so by the existing competition fearing change. So when I say things like all the negativity you hear in the news today is most likely heavily orchestrated, it might sound crazy until we come back to the fact that FUD typically comes from those either looking to make a profit from it or it's the competition attempting to stave off the inevitable. You might say to this, “But how is the news in competition with crypto?” The answer becomes clear when we really analyze who the competition is for crypto. The global banking industry, established credit card companies, traditional stock exchanges –these are some of the most powerful organizations in the world, and both the power and influence they wield is nearly limitless. \n\n<center>![image5.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTPZ97EKyYsH2skXuaPvduRJc2PG25zY5fqgVv6k4qAYT/image5.jpg)</center>\n\nThe world banking industry is legitimately afraid of the future that is crypto, and that it sounds crazy to some people bears the truth of it. Orchestrated FUD campaigns have been flung so far and wide that people look at an obviously groundbreaking, emerging technology (blockchain) with both an air of skepticism and even jest, as if it was only some children online pretending at being bankers or investors. And all this in the face of how much the internet has changed the daily lives of everyone the world over! For someone educated on crypto as a technology, it seems almost insane that someone could make the same mistake coming off of the dotcom bubble happening so recently and being so well-documented.\n\nEven inside of the crypto world itself, people see this as a scam to get rich and quickly cash back out to traditional fiat. They think they’ve got one over on us and simply managed to stay ahead of some perceived Ponzi scheme, capitalizing on it for all its worth before the inevitable downfall of it all. Persuasive as ever, the idea of \"cashing out\" is a common sentiment shared among countless forums throughout the internet. People simply refuse, or are too blinded by the FUD surrounding crypto, to really see just why crypto is really exploding. \n\nThe reality is that crypto is the largest shift in wealth in the history of mankind. This isn’t some speculative tech market. This is a group of people deciding to free themselves from the shackles of traditional inflation and banks. Crypto continues to rise in value because more and more people shift their wealth into it. Even if many of them are doing so in some foolhardy way to get rich quick, they’re accelerating the inevitable regardless of their personal feelings. Crypto is a reality of the future landscape, and blockchain is not going away. While many coins today might cease to exist in a handful of years from now, crypto as a whole isn’t going anywhere. This technology really does have the power to change large parts of our society, from the removal of the possibility of corruption within [voting](https://horizonstate.com/) to a complete revolution of the [publishing](https://publica.com/) industry. Crypto is so much more than Bitcoin and the replacement of the dollar. This is a replacement for the traditional finance system and centralized offerings of the entire world! \n\nWe have at our hands the first real way to ensure full honesty from all parties involved in a transaction, a system allowing people anywhere in the world to easily and quickly interact with one another on a financial level. This has never been possible before. We are talking about someone in Uganda being able to easily interact with someone in Montana, cutting out countless middlemen along the way –and those middlemen are not happy about it at all.\n\n<center>![image3.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSqxbFabokYxrMErUv7PutfoTU3MCJdjLf7GQbN1MR1HQ/image3.jpg)</center>\n\nThis last month has left many of us feeling like an Israelite fleeing Egypt without Moses. It’s a red sea out there, and finding a way to part those waves is looking grimmer by the day. But step back and take a look at the future. If you believe in the coins you back, then believe in them and the underlying technology fully. Did you pick up these coins to make a buck, or did you do the research and decide the technology is amazing and has a long future? The answer to that question is the answer to the future of you being in crypto. It might feel bad right now to be in the red, but our future couldn’t be brighter. Don’t let shortsightedness rob you of the chance of a lifetime.\n\nTune in next time when we will be discussing a multitude of possibilities about the “bubble” nature that crypto currently is in, both the dangers of it and the possibility that this new asset class might just defy all traditional economic viewpoints.\n\n\n<center>![irg2.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVwuMaZ5w8RsgcRGTMRELNGkZtgQ1p62fbNxWFbySBcXc/irg2.png)</center>\n\n<center>https://www.ironwoodresearchgroup.com/</center>",
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      "body": "<center>Chicken Little and Bitcoin Brittle</center>\n\n<center>![image4.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYUJtgKoRH7GkxPK7aFEWwzoN17bX4XViYXcdAF9UCZEg/image4.jpg)</center>\n\nIt’s finally happened – this newfangled tech bubble is dead! We all told you it was a bubble and that your fake computer market was never really worth anything. You really only have yourself to blame. Real folks will never value something they can’t hold in their hand as anything but worthless. You kids need to learn that we have a lot of experience, and we know what’s best. This new wave of the “future” was never going to pan out. 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While the dotcom crash was a major reality for the 21st century, [48% of companies survived](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23proto.html), with many still around to this day. We now know that the internet was not just fairy dust, but is a technology that changed nearly every facet of the world. Many useless and bloated companies died a hard death because they simply didn’t offer any real use, nor did they make anyone money. Given that the entire point of a company existing is to generate revenue, it doesn't take an economist to see why so many companies went belly up in the dotcom burst.\n\nOut of the terrible despair that was the early 2000s, many companies emerged to become dominant world leaders in the tech space. They did so by offering services and products that simply performed better, and were far more convenient than traditional technologies that only a decade ago many swore would never be replaced. We even heard the same thing when smartphones were first introduced; “Who would want to use these giant phones with their easy-to-break screens and outrageous prices? Who really wants a personal computer in their pocket at all times?” It turns out the answer is nearly everyone! You can look back in history and hear this same story repeated ad nauseam: “DVDs are too expensive and fragile to replace VHS,” “Cellphones are silly. Home phones are simply cheaper and better,” “Why would we need a computer in our home that doesn't help my family do anything and is outrageously expensive?”\n\nNow, while many of these technology adoptions seem hilarious in hindsight, the one thing that they all share in common is this simple defining factor: all of the FUD they had leveled against them was done so by the existing competition fearing change. So when I say things like all the negativity you hear in the news today is most likely heavily orchestrated, it might sound crazy until we come back to the fact that FUD typically comes from those either looking to make a profit from it or it's the competition attempting to stave off the inevitable. You might say to this, “But how is the news in competition with crypto?” The answer becomes clear when we really analyze who the competition is for crypto. The global banking industry, established credit card companies, traditional stock exchanges –these are some of the most powerful organizations in the world, and both the power and influence they wield is nearly limitless. \n\n<center>![image5.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTPZ97EKyYsH2skXuaPvduRJc2PG25zY5fqgVv6k4qAYT/image5.jpg)</center>\n\nThe world banking industry is legitimately afraid of the future that is crypto, and that it sounds crazy to some people bears the truth of it. Orchestrated FUD campaigns have been flung so far and wide that people look at an obviously groundbreaking, emerging technology (blockchain) with both an air of skepticism and even jest, as if it was only some children online pretending at being bankers or investors. And all this in the face of how much the internet has changed the daily lives of everyone the world over! For someone educated on crypto as a technology, it seems almost insane that someone could make the same mistake coming off of the dotcom bubble happening so recently and being so well-documented.\n\nEven inside of the crypto world itself, people see this as a scam to get rich and quickly cash back out to traditional fiat. They think they’ve got one over on us and simply managed to stay ahead of some perceived Ponzi scheme, capitalizing on it for all its worth before the inevitable downfall of it all. Persuasive as ever, the idea of \"cashing out\" is a common sentiment shared among countless forums throughout the internet. People simply refuse, or are too blinded by the FUD surrounding crypto, to really see just why crypto is really exploding. \n\nThe reality is that crypto is the largest shift in wealth in the history of mankind. This isn’t some speculative tech market. This is a group of people deciding to free themselves from the shackles of traditional inflation and banks. Crypto continues to rise in value because more and more people shift their wealth into it. Even if many of them are doing so in some foolhardy way to get rich quick, they’re accelerating the inevitable regardless of their personal feelings. Crypto is a reality of the future landscape, and blockchain is not going away. While many coins today might cease to exist in a handful of years from now, crypto as a whole isn’t going anywhere. This technology really does have the power to change large parts of our society, from the removal of the possibility of corruption within [voting](https://horizonstate.com/) to a complete revolution of the [publishing](https://publica.com/) industry. Crypto is so much more than Bitcoin and the replacement of the dollar. This is a replacement for the traditional finance system and centralized offerings of the entire world! \n\nWe have at our hands the first real way to ensure full honesty from all parties involved in a transaction, a system allowing people anywhere in the world to easily and quickly interact with one another on a financial level. This has never been possible before. 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      "body": "<center>Chicken Little and Bitcoin Brittle</center>\n\n<center>![image4.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYUJtgKoRH7GkxPK7aFEWwzoN17bX4XViYXcdAF9UCZEg/image4.jpg)</center>\n\nIt’s finally happened – this newfangled tech bubble is dead! We all told you it was a bubble and that your fake computer market was never really worth anything. You really only have yourself to blame. Real folks will never value something they can’t hold in their hand as anything but worthless. You kids need to learn that we have a lot of experience, and we know what’s best. This new wave of the “future” was never going to pan out. Now get back to investing your money into real companies, like General Motors or Ford, real American companies that you can count on to make a product you can use!\n\n<center>![image1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPTaJezPPdXfXHZTJticVdiNqsxycWLxUKjRGYH68n9vZ/image1.jpg)</center>\n\nI’m sure many of you have heard this sentiment over these last few weeks from your friends, family, and every financial media source out there. The funny thing about that sentiment is it gives me déjà vu; it’s exactly what I heard from everyone who lost a lot in the dotcom bust. The exact same FUD you see going out in waves over everything related to crypto is the same as it was during the dotcom burst. You see how that turned out, don't you? Those comments seem not only foolish but almost malicious in nature to anyone who happened to listen to them.\n\nReality comes sweeping back to us when we take a look at the market as a whole. While the dotcom crash was a major reality for the 21st century, [48% of companies survived](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23proto.html), with many still around to this day. We now know that the internet was not just fairy dust, but is a technology that changed nearly every facet of the world. Many useless and bloated companies died a hard death because they simply didn’t offer any real use, nor did they make anyone money. Given that the entire point of a company existing is to generate revenue, it doesn't take an economist to see why so many companies went belly up in the dotcom burst.\n\nOut of the terrible despair that was the early 2000s, many companies emerged to become dominant world leaders in the tech space. They did so by offering services and products that simply performed better, and were far more convenient than traditional technologies that only a decade ago many swore would never be replaced. We even heard the same thing when smartphones were first introduced ¬– \"Who would want to use these giant phones with their easy-to-break screens and outrageous prices? Who really wants a personal computer in their pocket at all times?\" It turns out the answer is nearly everyone! You can look back in history and hear this same story repeated ad nauseam: \"DVDs are too expensive and fragile to replace VHS,\" \"Cellphones are silly. Home phones are simply cheaper and better,\" \"Why would we need a computer in our home that doesn't help my family do anything and is outrageously expensive?\"\n\nNow, while many of these technology adoptions seem hilarious in hindsight, the one thing that they all share in common is this simple defining factor: all of the FUD they had leveled against them was done so by the existing competition fearing change. So when I say things like all the negativity you hear in the news today is most likely heavily orchestrated, it might sound crazy until we come back to the fact that FUD typically comes from those either looking to make a profit from it or it's the competition attempting to stave off the inevitable. You might say to this, \"But how is the news in competition with crypto?” The answer becomes clear when we really analyze who the competition is for crypto. The global banking industry, established credit card companies, traditional stock exchanges –these are some of the most powerful organizations in the world, and both the power and influence they wield is nearly limitless. \n\n<center>![image5.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTPZ97EKyYsH2skXuaPvduRJc2PG25zY5fqgVv6k4qAYT/image5.jpg)</center>\n\nThe world banking industry is legitimately afraid of the future that is crypto, and that it sounds crazy to some people bears the truth of it. Orchestrated FUD campaigns have been flung so far and wide that people look at an obviously groundbreaking, emerging technology (blockchain) with both an air of skepticism and even jest, as if it was only some children online pretending at being bankers or investors. And all this in the face of how much the internet has changed the daily lives of everyone the world over! For someone educated on crypto as a technology, it seems almost insane that someone could make the same mistake coming off of the dotcom bubble happening so recently and being so well-documented.\n\nEven inside of the crypto world itself, people see this as a scam to get rich and quickly cash back out to traditional fiat. They think they’ve got one over on us and simply managed to stay ahead of some perceived Ponzi scheme, capitalizing on it for all its worth before the inevitable downfall of it all. Persuasive as ever, the idea of \"cashing out\" is a common sentiment shared among countless forums throughout the internet. People simply refuse, or are too blinded by the FUD surrounding crypto, to really see just why crypto is really exploding. \n\nThe reality is that crypto is the largest shift in wealth in the history of mankind. This isn’t some speculative tech market. This is a group of people deciding to free themselves from the shackles of traditional inflation and banks. Crypto continues to rise in value because more and more people shift their wealth into it. Even if many of them are doing so in some foolhardy way to get rich quick, they’re accelerating the inevitable regardless of their personal feelings. Crypto is a reality of the future landscape, and blockchain is not going away. While many coins today might cease to exist in a handful of years from now, crypto as a whole isn’t going anywhere. This technology really does have the power to change large parts of our society, from the removal of the possibility of corruption within [voting](https://horizonstate.com/) to a complete revolution of the [publishing](https://publica.com/) industry. Crypto is so much more than Bitcoin and the replacement of the dollar. This is a replacement for the traditional finance system and centralized offerings of the entire world! \n\nWe have at our hands the first real way to ensure full honesty from all parties involved in a transaction, a system allowing people anywhere in the world to easily and quickly interact with one another on a financial level. This has never been possible before. We are talking about someone in Uganda being able to easily interact with someone in Montana, cutting out countless middlemen along the way –and those middlemen are not happy about it at all.\n\n<center>![image3.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSqxbFabokYxrMErUv7PutfoTU3MCJdjLf7GQbN1MR1HQ/image3.jpg)</center>\n\nThis last month has left many of us feeling like an Israelite fleeing Egypt without Moses. It’s a red sea out there, and finding a way to part those waves is looking grimmer by the day. But step back and take a look at the future. If you believe in the coins you back, then believe in them and the underlying technology fully. Did you pick up these coins to make a buck, or did you do the research and decide the technology is amazing and has a long future? The answer to that question is the answer to the future of you being in crypto. It might feel bad right now to be in the red, but our future couldn’t be brighter. 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      "body": "<center>Chicken Little and Bitcoin Brittle</center>\n\n<center>![image4.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYUJtgKoRH7GkxPK7aFEWwzoN17bX4XViYXcdAF9UCZEg/image4.jpg)</center>\n\nIt’s finally happened this new fangled tech bubble is dead! We all told you it was a bubble and that your fake computer market was never really worth anything. You really only have yourself to blame, real folks will never value something they can’t hold in their hand as anything but worthless. You kids need to learn that we have a lot of experience and we know what’s best this new wave of the “future” was never going to pan out. Now get back to investing your money into real companies like General Motors or Ford, good real American companies that you can count on and make a real product you can use!\n\n<center>![image1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPTaJezPPdXfXHZTJticVdiNqsxycWLxUKjRGYH68n9vZ/image1.jpg)</center>\n                                    \nI’m sure many of you have heard this sentiment over these last few weeks from your friends, family and ever financial media source out there. Yet the really funny thing about that previous sentiment is it’s not about crypto, it’s exactly what I heard from everyone to a close friend who lost a whole lot in the dotcom bust. The exact same FUD you see going out in waves over everything related to crypto right now is exactly the same as it was during the dotcom burst. Now given how we all can pretty easily see how that turned out, those comments seem not only foolish but almost malicious in nature to anyone who happened to listen to them.\n\nReality comes sweeping back to us when we look at the big picture here and take a look at the as well as the market as a whole. While the dotcom crash certainly is a major reality for the 21st century, [48% of companies survived](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23proto.html) it and had continued operations up until 2004, with many still around today. Not only that we now know that the internet was not fairy dust and in fact was a technology that changed nearly every facet of the western world. Many useless and bloated companies(Bitconnect, BitcoinGold etc.) died a hard death because they simply didn’t offer any real value nor did they make anyone money. Given that the entire point of a company existing is to generate revenue, it doesn't take an economist to see why so many companies went belly up.\n\nYet through all that terrible despair that was the early 00’s many companies emerged to be the dominant world leaders and they did so by offering services and items that simply performed easier, better and far more convenient than those traditional technologies only a decade ago many swore would never be replaced. We even heard the same thing when smartphones were first introduced, who would want to use these giant phones with their easy to break screens and outrageous prices. I mean who really wants a personal computer in their pocket at all times? Turns out the answer is everyone, everyone wants a personal computer in their pocket at all times. You can look back in history and hear this same story repeated ad nauseam DVD’s are too expensive and fragile to replace VHS, Cellphones are silly and home phones are simply cheaper and better, why would we need a computer in our home that doesn't help my family do anything and it’s outrageously expensive.\n\nNow while many of these technology adoptions seem hilarious in hindsight the one thing more than anything else they all share in common is this simple defining factor, all of the FUD they had leveled against them was done so by the existing competition fearing change. So when I say things like all the negativity you hear in the the news today is most likely heavily orchestrated it might sound crazy until we come back to the fact that FUD typically comes from those either looking to make a profit it or the competition attempting to stave off the inevitable.  You might say to this “but what does the news have to do with competition with crypto?” and the answer becomes clear when we really analyze who the competition is for crypto, the global banking industry. Established credit card companies. Traditional Stock Exchanges. These are some of the most powerful organizations in the world and both the power and influence they wield is nearly limitless. \n\n<center>![image5.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTPZ97EKyYsH2skXuaPvduRJc2PG25zY5fqgVv6k4qAYT/image5.jpg)</center>\n\nThis is a key factor to allow yourself to revel in, the world banking industry is legitimately afraid of the future that is crypto. In fact simply the notion that, that idea sounds almost crazy to some people is proof more than ever of the truth of it. Orchestrated FUD campaigns have been so far and wide flung that people look on towards a obviously groundbreaking emerging technology that is Blockchain with both an air of skepticism and even jest as if it was merely some children online pretending at being bankers or investors. All in the face of how much the Internet has changed our daily lives, has changed the daily lives of mass swathes of the entire world! For someone educated on crypto as a technology it seems almost insane that someone could make that same mistake coming off the dotcom bubble happening so recently and so well documented.\n\nEven inside of the crypto world itself people see this as a scam to get rich and quickly cash back out to traditional FIAT, thinking they’ve got one over on us and simply managed to stay ahead of some perceived scam. Persuasive as ever the idea of Cashing Out is a common sentiment shared among countless forum boards scattered far and wide. People simply refuse or are too blinded by the FUD surrounding crypto to really see just why crypto is really exploding, this isn’t about a speculative market trading against people others attempting to see who can get the last leg up before the whole house of cards collapses.\n\nCrypto in reality is the largest shift in wealth in the history of mankind, this isn’t some speculative tech market. This is a group of people deciding to free themselves from the shackles of traditional inflation and banks. Crypto continues to rise in value because more and more people shift their wealth into it, even if many of them are doing so simply in some foolhardy way to get rich they’re accelerating the inevitable regardless. Crypto is a reality of the future and Blockchain is not going away, while many coins today might simply not exist in only a handful of years from now crypto as a whole isn’t going anywhere. This technology really does have the power to change wide swaths of our society from the removal of the possibility of corruption within [voting](https://horizonstate.com/) to a complete revolution of the [publishing](https://publica.com/) industry. Crypto is so much more than bitcoin and the replacement of the dollar, this is a replacement for the traditional finance system of the entire world! \n\nWe have at our hands the first real way to insure full honesty from all parties involved in a transaction, a system allowing people anywhere in the world to easily and quickly interact with each other on a financial level. This has never been possible before, we are talking about someone in Uganda being able to easily interact with someone in Montana. 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