CRYPTO HISTORY Why was cryptocurrency invented, you might well wonder? What’s wrong with regular money? Is this just some geek fantasy of living in a video game? Before Satoshi Nakamoto, There was Nothing These are all legitimate questions, especially since the very earliest forms of virtual currency really did have their origins in multiplayer online video games. In fact, one of the earliest cryptocurrency exchanges, the ill-fated Mt. Gox, was originally an exchange for players of the videogame "Magic: The Gathering." In fact, Mt. Gox is an acronym of M agic: T he G athering O nline E x change. One of the earliest people to conceive of the current model of cryptocurrency was Nick Szabo, who in 2005 introduced the concept of Bit Gold . The concept of cryptocurrency predates Bitcoin, but the early attempts weren’t successful. Cryptocurrency, according to its proponents, addresses fundamental, unfixable flaws with the traditiona...