The answer depends on your goals and your sense of the future, as crypto-currency and NFTs challenge our historical understanding of traditional forms of assets. But as history shows, the representation of money, considered a general purpose technology (one that can affect an entire economy), has, like other technologies, changed radically over the centuries. Civilization has moved from bartering and trading to using precious metals, paper money and checks, credit and debit cards, electronic money, and now cryptocurrency.
Even with the criticism and fear surrounding the cryptocurrency market, an equally obstinate group of supporters and backers are determined to make it work.
Since the first bitcoin was mined in January 2009, ...
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