Bitcoin

If the wave of the future is bitcoin, then I missed the wave.

There are plenty of cutting-edge articles about cryptocurrencies, chock-full of explanations of deregulation, blockchain, market capitalization, and the removal of banking's grip on money supplies.  

Is your heading spinning yet? Mine too.

My only "bitcoin-esque" experience was mistakenly trying to pay a toll on the New York State Thruway with a Chuck E. Cheese token. The toll booth collector looked blankly at my exhausted and bleary-eyed expression and drolly pointed out the error of my ways.

Arcade coinage? Yes. Toll booth passage. Um.......... no.

"Bitcoin is like anything else: it's worth what people are willing to pay for it." – Stanley Druckenmiller