Why Are Millennials Turning to Cryptocurrencies?

By Patrick Tan on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

Patrick Tan
Published in
8 min readMar 18, 2019

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Stacey Keagan stands in front of the chilled foods section at the Walgreens across the street from her office. Keagan, a liberal arts graduate from Smith College has to make her biggest decision of the day, how to spend the five dollars which she’s budgeted for her lunch.

“The Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is ‘42’.”

There are days when Keagan busts her budget, but she’s determined that today won’t be one of those days.

Maybe the Jimmy Deans sausage muffin at US$3.49 will do the trick.

But if you think that the 25-year-old Keagan is saving money and budgeting to splurge on expensive vacations or some new clothes, you’d be sorely mistaken.

Keagan, who works for a non-profit wants to save up to build a comfortable household with her fiancee, who’s working at a technology startup based out of Boston.

And although money is tight between the two, they still manage to squirrel away small pockets of their salaries in the hopes of making some small investments to grow their wealth.

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Patrick Tan
The Dark Side

General Counsel for ChainArgos, the blockchain intelligence firm made famous for breaking the story that BUSD was unbacked by US$1.4bn