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Not so long ago (2009), in a galaxy near and familiar, a cryptocurrency was born. It was called Bitcoin. For several years it played all alone in the blockchain sandbox. Outside of geeks, freaks, and paranoids, few people paid attention to it but then a funny thing happened — early investors became millionaires. Before long, <a href="https://coincrunch.io/cryptocurrency-master-guide/" target="_blank">other cryptocurrencies appeared on the scene</a>. Some of them took the idea beyond that of a simple digital currency and the term “token” sprang into existence to signify all the different things you could do besides simply buy stuff.