Well Deuceace, the crypto community is worth billions of dollars and it surely does resolve several issues that fiat currencies are unable to tackle. I would love to chat with you and your fellow college mates with regards to cryptocurrency trading and investments, however let me warn you that these sort of trading and investments involve high level of risk and is vulnerable to manipulation by whales (holders of large number of crypto assets). Get involved only if you are ready to lose all what you invest i.e invest only as much as you could lose. This was one of my major mistakes and I have lost a few thousands of dollars initially intended to use towards my university fee payment. Also, I will soon publish my formal thesis which answers on what makes individuals invest in cryptocurrencies. This is a study and involves a data collection from within the real cyrpto market and mathematical analysis. This could also probably help you with your dissertation thesis since you are in college :). Please do share my posts and help me get more upvotes.