Bitcoin's Midlife Crisis: The Challenge of Gen-Z Adoption

Bitcoin's Midlife Crisis: The Challenge of Gen-Z Adoption

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This article explores Bitcoin's journey from a subversive outsider during the Great Financial Crisis to its current perceived 'midlife crisis.' The core challenge discussed is Bitcoin's ability to engage and win over the Gen-Z demographic, questioning its future relevance if it fails to adapt to younger generations. It touches on Bitcoin's origins and its unique emergence outside traditional financial or tech structures.

Bitcoin started its life as a rank outsider. It didn’t emerge from Silicon Valley ingenuity or the boardrooms of central banks. Rather, Bitcoin’s arrival in the fallout of the Great Financial Crisis was both perfectly timed and profoundly subversive. A whitepaper posted to a cypherpunk mailing list by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto pitched a peer-to-peer […]

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