We're at a critical and pivotal point in the evolution and adoption of crypto on a national and international level. The problem is the optics of crypto are one of insane volatility, get rich quick schemes, criminals, and "hackers." The notoriety of the Silk Road, the rise and fall of Bitcoin in the past 6 months, and many countries taking draconian measures to regulate unnecessarily has not given the average person any reason to believe that this is the future.

I, and I'm sure 99% of the rest of you, know that this is the future. But the problem is the average joe who wants to know and learn about crypto isn't browsing Reddit. They're getting their information from CNBC, Fox News, or "my nephew, who wants me to paypal him some bitcoins. he helped me reset my router." These same average joes are the ones who believe that banks have their best interests at heart, their brokers are working to help them retire, and trust the government to know what's best when it comes to not getting scammed. We all know that couldn't be further from the truth, which is why we invested our hard earned money into crpyto - to forge ahead. The desire to make money for ourselves is definitely there, and we shouldn't shy away from it, but we all also believe in the core values behind what crypto is going to achieve.

Like any major change, we're going to be met with fierce resistance. "Well my bank won't let me buy crypto!" "I cant use these bitcoins to buy anything useful!" "It's all a crock of shit and will go away!" And this is why we need to do a better job of marketing out what crypto means. We - and I say the collective we, agnostic of any coin or token you've bought in to - need to take it upon ourselves to help everyone better understand what crypto means for their personal lives and their wallets and their bank accounts. It means living free of banks, not being tethered to the scumbag broker who's still making profits off of their paper losses, and not being forced to abide by arbitrary rules set by government.

We're doing a shit job of this, because we have all the power in the world to clap back at the Jamie Dimons of the world, who try to manipulate the market so he can take a stronger position . We overly believe the SEC and their past comments on how bitcoin "doesn't pass the smell test." The same SEC who allowed the 2008 recession to happen and did absolutely nothing to prosecute a single banker.

So what do we do? We educate. We use our cell phones to make videos of transactions between customers and businesses. We crowdfund ad and marketing campaigns and get the founders and whales of coins to help spread the word beyond re-tweets, likes, and telegram groups. If your transaction speed is less than 5 seconds and your fee is next to nothing, why the f*** aren't you out there showing people what this tech is capable of? If BCH is the next logical evolution of BTC, why don't we have people asking and petitioning businesses to accept it? Small businesses will always go to a payment system that keeps transaction costs low. Why pay 2.5% to visa or amex or MC when you could pay less than a fraction of that accepting BCH?

This is the time for all of us to come together as a community of people who want to literally change the world and get the layperson to understand what crypto can do for them.