LOL
In any disruptive technology revolution, expect the tiny tikes to know more than YOU! The very fact that you think
BTC revolves around an anitquated CENTRALIZED concept, the exchanges and that it's impossible to legally own
BTC without using them is a tell on your age.
BTC is the concept of DECENTRALIZED banking. Even without exchanges,
BTC will increase in adoption exponentially simply by people spending
BTC. I bet you 1
BTC that many kids probably own more
BTC than you and know more about
BTC than you or me.
This kinda reminds me of when I owned the world's first desktop computer. I nagged my parents for months incessantly until they bought it for me. They finally relented even though they had no idea what they were buying. Then, I had no money to buy sofware (much like these kids today have no money to buy
BTC), so I posted an ad in a computer magazine (this was before there was an internet) offering to trade copies of software. Hundreds of people called to swap software. I'll bet you these kids probably mined their
BTC two years ago when it was easy or if they're doing it now, they're mining alt coins for free with their parent's electricity then swapping them for
BTC. There's a good chance the webmaster for this very forum is a 13 year old kid working on this site for
BTC. You know, Bill Gates wrote his first million dollar software before he turned 18. He hid behind a corporate entity and hired adults in suits to do all the negotiations so people won't find out that he's just a kid.
You and I are probably still skeptical of bitcoin. I half expect the value to go down to zero. Our discomfort stems from our gut feeling that this is not "normal". However, kids have no preconceived notion of what's normal YET. So, if they're smart, they'll adopt the new "normal", Bitcoins. Their adoption feels comfortable because they have no other point of reference (central banking) if their first financial transactions are in Bitcoin and not dollars, which is likely because you cannot mine dollars but you can mine bitcoins, litecoins, and dogecoins. To these kids that grow up on cryptocash, pieces of paper with dead presidents seem "abnormal". Why are you using a medieval technology in the 21st century?!