Bitcoin: 17 Years Later, The Inevitability of a Silent Revolution.

You don’t have to buy Bitcoin. You don’t have to “believe” in Bitcoin. But you owe it to yourself, as a citizen aware of the fragility of the world, to understand Bitcoin.

Seventeen years ago today, on October 31, 2008, as the financial world was on its knees, shaken by the greatest crisis since 1929, a nine-page document was quietly published on a cryptography mailing list. The author, an enigmatic pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto, described a “Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.”

This document, now known as the Bitcoin “whit…