the most unexpected development was this: My understanding of money was now completely abstracted. It was numbers on a screen that went up and down.
An entire generation has come to think about money this way. "To young people, money has always been fake numbers on the internet," a cryptocurrency business founder tells me. And because these numbers are tied to an online economy made up of trivial jokes and crude cartoons, losing it can feel just as surreal as winning.
— ZOË BERNARDReplicated under Fair Use from CRYPTO: Realm of the Coin by ZOË BERNARD.