Why Liberty Always Win. A Cryptocurrency Story

Published on Jul 2nd, 2017 — Bitcoin price: $ 2,445

Last night, while I was reading Naval Ravikant tweets about cryptocurrencies, I remembered that I had once bought some Bitcoins and Ethereum for fun. After clicking the forgot password twice on Coinbase, I checked how my investment was going. It appeared that in Sept 2016 I had carelessly bought 10$ of Bitcoin and $10 of Ethereum yet I noticed something strange: my new balance was $260. I was sure this was a mistake. How could I have possibly made 1300% return in just 10 months? How could $20 became $260 in less than a year? A quick Google search dispelled all of my doubts, turned out cryptocurrencies have been on STEROIDS for the past year; Bitcoin is up 255% and Etherium is up 2,237%. Yes 2,237% in 12 months..

I was shocked. After an hour of cursing myself for not having put more money I decided I needed to find out what the hell was going on. I went to my favorite source of knowledge, YouTube, and watched the 10 most viewed video on cryptocurrencies. Around 2am on a hot Saturday night in Los Angeles I was finally versed in Blockchain, Nodes, Miners and Cryptocurrencies. I turned the lights off and hit the pillow.

I woke up on Sunday still not knowing why all of this was happening. I knew what was going on, but couldn’t figure out the why. Why were Bill Gates…