For years the finance sector of the worlds market has been managed and controlled by central governments. This partiality ended when Cryptocurrency was introduced back in 2012.
The first Cryptocurrency was introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto and he named it bitcoin. Along side the bitcoin introduced Blockchain which helped make it decentralized by putting the control of Cryptocurrencies in the hands of its users instead of the government.
Cryptocurrencies have had a major impact on this generation because many tend to invest and make more out of it because of its price fluctuations. People see it as a get rich fast system.
As at now, there are more than 1400 Cryptocurrencies with almost 500 Cryptocurrency exchange market holding a world marketcap of close to $400 billion. It hit it's all-time-high back in November 2017 at close to $900 billion. This clearly indicates Cryptocurrency isn't dying out anytime soon. It's come a long way and it's has more room for World adoption.