All around are getting richer, but you are not

A short translation of the author of The New York Times by Nelly Bowles on how young people who earned money on crypto-currencies live.

In 2017, bitcoin, airwaves and many other crypto-currencies have gained a lot in price. News of unprecedented wealth flooded media space.

Many people buy virtual coins for credit cards, and investors now and then compare the situation around the crypto currency with the dotcom bubble in the 1990s.

The crypto-currency community is a close group of people who have known each other for many years. They believe that crypto-currencies decentralize power and power by changing the world order. However, statistics seem to indicate the opposite.

And you can imagine the reaction of these guys if they lose all their money. They remember well who and when laughed at them.

James showed the journalist a screenshot with a Facebook entry, in which he urged everyone to buy Ethereum. This was in 2014. "One likes," he exclaimed. "Just one like."

Kriptokrepost
"I do ICO, it's really mine," said Jeremy Gardner, a young brash investor, a sample for beginners in the world of crypto-currency.

Not long ago, Gardner launched the ICO for his company Augur. The tokens dispersed quickly, and for a while the cost of the start-up (despite the fact that there were almost no customers) exceeded $ 1 billion.

Cryptoproton
Not far from the crypto-lock is located, as they call it residents, crypto.