Fast forward 40 years and Apple is now the second largest company in the world valued at $2.5 trillion, narrowly missing out on top spot to Microsoft .
Apple was the vanguard of the dot.com darlings at the turn of the millennium.
Bitcoin’s total market value is currently $1.3 trillion – almost the same as Tesla and more than Meta .
Nonetheless, cryptocurrencies are banned or restricted in many countries such as China, Russia, Turkey and Egypt to name but a few.
If nothing else ‘cryptocurrency is fun,’ as one of my postgraduate students at The University of Liverpool reminded me earlier this week.