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What is Cryptocurrency? (The Original Vision vs. The Reality) At its core, cryptocurrency was designed to be digital money that exists on a decentralized network—meaning no single company, bank, or government controls it. The Original Vision It relies on an open ledger where thousands of independent computers verify transactions. This ensures no one can cheat the system or print fake money. The Reality Today The vast majority of the modern crypto market has completely abandoned this. Most popular tokens today are highly centralized, controlled by venture capitalists, or run on networks that can be paused and have no supply limit by their corporate creators.