What do you know about investing? Did you know that there is a new trend — modern art? Even in a bank, there is a man whose job it is to buy pieces of art. So what about bitcoin, you might ask? Oh! Let me continue and I’ll tell you why cryptocurrency may be an art object.

So. The deal with modern art is its growing cost. After several years, a piece of paper with some colorful lines can be bought for millions of dollars. Art rarely becomes cheaper.

So what about cryptocurrency? Is it a type of art?

Firstly, let’s understand the definition. What is art? There is a point of view that art is a process that changes people’s picture of the world. Simply put, it changes people. Before art appeared, there was one picture of the world, afterwards — another. So let’s see

What bitcoin did to the world.

The main changes lie in the field of crowdfunding. Ten years before bitcoin, people had to collect money by themselves in order to publish a book, release a music album and even to organize a concert tour. They did it because big companies wouldn’t. The things common people want to read, hear or see were too small for business. In 1998, raising money wasn’t easy.

In 2009 Kikstarter (the crowdfunding platform) became available. After a few years, similar projects appeared all over the world. They made the process of raising money easier.

But they all have limitations that prevent people from implementing their ideas.

Geographical. You must be a citizen of the country in which the crowdfunding service is registered Commission. Some platforms want as much as 30% from the total amount Platforms had limits on what idea you can collect money for.

So what’s the situation now? You’ve probably heard this combination of words — ICO? “Initial coin offering” — that is the modern version of crowdfunding. Yes, you can ask people all over the world to give you money for your project, app or any idea (to exchange their money for your coins or tokens). But there is one condition — they must have bitcoin or ethereum.

Could you you imagine a crowdfunding campaign to collect money for your personal use in the era of crowdfunding platforms? But now, an Canadian programmer has released tokens named after himself. One token is equal to one hour of his work.

This is just one example. But there are thousands of ICO for everything, because of the presence of bitcoin as a technology. Therefore, bitcoin changes the world, changes the way people realise their ideas and dreams.

Oh, what a cool piece of art bitcoin is. It fell from $20000 to $7000, you might say. Yes, but do you remember that ten years ago it cost $0? Art has long pay-back period. Just look at what experts say about the bitcoin exchange rate.