When I learned that bitcoin was created to prevent another mortgage crisis, I was eager to learn more. At a time when my parents , who had always done “the right thing,” were forced to borrow money from my sister and I, I wanted to understand finance and how easily the “system” could fail hardworking people. Like most, once I spent more than a few hours researching, I fell in love with the concept of a globally backed, finite currency. Since then, so much has happened in this world that drove home that feeling that an open financial community is so much better than a few mega companies with government reps in their pockets.