Why do we need Banks anyway?

Joshua C. Taylor
3 min readJun 16, 2021

Level 1: Crypto Baby

Banks are… OLD… and BEHIND

Hey BreakinCrypto Nation!

I am up early at 3:02 am Central standard time and thought I’d share a short story with you all.

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Guzo Day by the City of Houston January 29, 2019

For the past 5 years, I’ve been running a tech startup with my older brother, Gordon Taylor. It’s been an amazing five years and learned more than I can think about at this time. I am constantly thinking of solutions to problems in the world or that I specifically see around me.

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All White Boat Party via Lakeshore Chicago

I ran across one problem when I recently flew to Chicago for my good friends graduation celebration (which was EPIC by the way).

Being the crypto lover that I am, I hold a decent amount of money on digital asset wallets (Coinbase, Crypto, Ledger, Uphold, Gemini, Exodus, etc. > I’ll write about digital wallets soon!).

The only problem is… Our society isn’t quite ready to be FULLY Bankless yet.

In this particular instance, my Wells Fargo account currency was low however, as…

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Joshua C. Taylor

I enjoy creating and building things. I am a Curious Being writing about entrepreneurship, ideas, economics and crypto.