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Why Your Kids Are Comfortable With Magic Internet Money | by Jon Kol | Medium

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Disclaimer: this piece is not intended to be an in-depth exploration of the topic at hand, rather a quick stream of thoughts that will hopefully stimulate broader discussion. I expect holes to be poked in my arguments, and have no illusions as to my ability to predict the course of future events. In the cryptosphere, we like to spend some of our time thinking about the answer to the questions ‘When, where, and how will we see adoption of digital currencies?’, and when faced with these questions I often think back to Max Planck’s words (at times referred to as Planck’s Principle): An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.(1) — Max Planck, Scientific autobiography, 1950, p.

Why Your Kids Are Comfortable With Magic Internet Money Jon Kol 4 min read · Mar 18, 2019 -- 9 Listen Share Disclaimer: this piece is not intended to be an in-depth exploration of the topic at hand, rather a quick stream of thoughts that will hopefully stimulate broader discussion. I expect holes to be poked in my arguments, and have no illusions as to my ability to predict the course of future events. In the cryptosphere, we like to spend some of our time thinking about the answer to the questions ‘When, where, and how will we see adoption of digital currencies?’, and when faced with these qu

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