The NFT marketplace has become so popular that the average NFT now sells for $3,257, according to NonFungible.com. In fact, the most expensive NFT picked up $91.8 million in 2021. But it’s not only the ease of selling attracting artists to NFTs. Or even the total control they have over their earnings.

If you’ve not heard Metaverse is the future, it’s planned to be the next big thing in crypto, in fact many leaders claim it's going to be the next stage of the Internet. Facebook (one of the biggest companies in the world) have so much trust in it they’ve changed their business name to “Meta” to reflect the investment being made in the Metaverse. Facebook is spending billions of dollars a year already on the Metaverse.

What was once a fringe currency only used by a dark corner of the web…is now the fastest growing financial asset on Earth. And, this is just the beginning…. You see, we are still in just the third inning of crypto as a financial entity. So, while no financial vehicle is making people rich as quickly as cryptocurrency, less than eight percent of Americans and three percent of the worldwide population owns it! But now, the major players are taking an interest.

The term metaverse is suddenly everywhere, from debates over Fortnite to the pages of the New York Times to the speeches of Mark Zuckerberg, who proclaimed in June 2021 that “the overarching goal” of Facebook is to “bring the metaverse to life”. But what, exactly, is the metaverse? As pioneering theorist and venture capitalist Matthew Ball explains, it is the successor to the mobile internet that has defined the last two decades.

There’s a lot of information on cryptocurrency and blockchains out there. But, for the uninitiated, most of this information can be indecipherable. The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains aims to provide an accessible guide to this new currency and the revolutionary technology that powers it.