Most investors, when hearing the word “crypto,” immediately think of:

• Bitcoin’s explosive price swings
  

• Meme coins skyrocketing overnight
  

• Stories of overnight millionaires and spectacular crashes
  

These surface-level events create a thick fog of misunderstanding: Some people dismiss crypto as “gambling,” while others worship it as a “financial miracle.”

Both viewpoints are wrong — because both ignore the technology.

To understand crypto properly, we must start from the beginning:

👉 Crypto = Cryptography, not “coin.” 👉 Blockchain was built on cryptography. 👉 Cryptoassets emerged from blockchain. 👉 Cryptocurrency is only one subtype of cryptoassets. 👉 And cryptocurrency was born after the 2008 financial crisis, not by accident, but as a response to a systemic failure of trust.