Mike Judge may very well be a precog. First, his Idiocracy movie predicted a cartoonish wrestler in The White House, and now his Silicon Valley TV series (which features the Coinbase logo on a stack of bitcoins in the season 5 intro) is starting to seem like a glimpse of the future of the Internet.
Will Crypto Kitties "do a Superman"? If you bought an original copy of Action Comics #1 back in 1938 and managed to keep it in pristine condition for 75 years, you made a shrewd investment. The comic book skyrocketed in value from $0.10 to $3,207,852 over the years.
Video games are the forefathers of digital currencies. That may sound like a bold statement, but if you’re curious about the sustainability of cryptocurrency, you need look no further than World of Warcraft and its 14-year run with a successful in-game digital gold economy.
In many ways, the $97 billion sex industry is the perfect use-case for cryptocurrency. Discretion is valued by customers and suppliers alike, who don’t always want their significant others, parents, friends, law enforcement, or the general public knowing about their sex lives and predilections.
Crypto and cannabis have captured the public imagination over the last year or two. Both are new, both are often profitable, and both pit emerging economies against existing regulations. Little highlights the line drawn between states', federal and international boundaries like weed and cryptocurrency.
