Crypto has been with us for more than a decade now. The first years of that decade were the Dark Ages when the light of crypto shone on very few people, and the whole industry was pretty much obscure – not many knew about Bitcoin, what it was, what it did, why it was (and still is) needed, why should they have bought it.
A Ponzi scheme, a pyramid, a scam, illegal – Bitcoin and crypto, in general, were slandered and kicked around, as sadly has been the case with every novelty since, well, forever. Then came 2017 – the massive retail investor-led bull run, which saw new capital pour into the blockchain space and a wave of new adopters enter the market. Winter followed for crypto.
Everything recoiled in 2021 – the most significant push towards mass adoption for crypto in its not-so-long history. Billions of fresh dollars entered the chains, millions of people started buying, trading, and storing crypto, and the numbers went wild. Many retail investors started their love/hate crypto relationships in 2021, and it seemed like mass adoption was inevitable. Well, not quite.
Here Comes the Twist
A lot of these retail investors entered into unknown territory head-first, walking on very thin ice. Some of them merely got scratched, others just straight out drowned in the massive sea of opportunity and possibility.
Many were hacked. Others lost incredible amounts of money to gas fees or because they sent assets to the wrong address or the wrong network. Seed…
