What if money was was like a speculative penny stock that was considered investment property? Now what if that existed as software secured by cryptographic codes and distributed across the world?

It would on one hand be a revolutionary an democratized one world currency, but on the other hand a hard to account for pump and dump scheme that funneled money from the poor to the rich in the name of “being revolutionary.”

But don’t laugh, this really isn’t too different from fiat currency in the form of bank credit, and honestly both have their pros and cons.

That covered, one can’t ignore the fact that smart contracts and blockchain technology open may possibilities for distributed computing and that tokenized economies are almost certainly going to be a thing in the future.

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How to Trade Cryptocurrency

Is a Bitcoin an Actual Coin?

To trade or invest in cryptocurrency you’ll need a cryptocurrency wallet and an exchange to trade on. Luckily, some platforms like Coinbase provide both services in one place.