The financial world has always been a pretty stuffy place. Walk down the halls of any Wall Street firm and you will still see everybody wearing suits as if nothing has changed since the 1950’s except for the fact that computers have replaced the typewriters. The attitudes are all the same. But in most other modern businesses there has been a trend towards a more casual work environment and attitude. Take Facebook or Google for example, these are huge companies but the work environment, although tough, is casual on its surface. People wear hoodies to work, and they sit on bean bag chairs to work on their laptops. This has all become commonplace in the tech world but the financial sector is still stuck in the buttoned down, all-serious world.

And this got me thinking that crypto may really be the financial revolution it claims to be. Nobody, and no trend has been able to topple the stuffed shirt attitude of the financial world. At least not until recently. That’s when the laid back, modern attitude of the tech world merged with the financial world and we got this strange intersection of meme culture and financial culture that is becoming the crypto revolution.







A few months back, a type of Ethereum multi sig wallet was exploited and nearly $200 million dollars was lost in an instant. If this was in the financial world, news like this would be brought to the public in the form of “breaking news” and you would see commentators on CNBC talking about the implications in a tone so serious you would have thought a nuclear missile was on its way to their television studios. Yet, back here in the crypto world, the top posts on most forums were memes and jokes. Nothing is serious in this world, everything can be a joke or a meme. Even the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars.

And it’s this type of modern cultural attitude, the kind that has invaded all other facets of modern digital culture that is now going to finally topple the antiquated financial world. I know it sounds strange to think that meme culture invading something like the financial world could be used as a sign of a revolution. But in fact, cultural shifts are exactly what changes the world. When cultures shift, the old ways crumble away and a new way of thinking rises to the top. The memes and jokes you see around the crypto world are the first cracks forming in the antiquated banking and financial system that has remained unchanged for so long. And it’s only a matter of time before it falls to make way for something new.