OpEdCryptocurrency is to money what the internet is to information It is a powerful and potent technology with the power to transform the world It is an evolutionary tool in the sense that it is already propelling humanity forward Crypto will help human beings abolish banks governments and other organizations with single points of failure Nonetheless visionaries entrepreneurs and iconoclasts cannot let the utility of this tool cause them to let their guard down They cannot let themselves be swept away in the hype because cryptocurrencies are not invulnerable In a way Bitcoin the initial cryptocurrency was damaged in a hacking maneuver against it demonstrating that these tools are not impervious to attack