Cryptonite

Even money has taken the leap from coins and bills to bits and bytes. In 2008, a peer-to-peer electronic cash system was born as the infamous Satoshi Nakamoto coined a paper with the same name. Bitcoin launched as an open-source killer-app to eliminate the middleman, let users be the bank, while serving the unbanked and underbanked.

The system of mining and distributed ledger allowed the bank anonymity and privacy, while also providing…