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Adoption of Cardano will be different from the First Generation of Cryptocurrencies
The world’s first known cryptocurrency was Bitcoin, which well represents the first generation of cryptocurrencies. The second generation represents Ethereum 1.0, which came with the concept of smart contracts. Cardano belongs to the third generation that will solve other common cryptocurrency problems such as scalability, project governance, and interoperability.
The fundamental difference between the first and the third generation is that Cardano is a platform and Bitcoin is not. We will focus on the differences related to Bitcoin and Cardano adoption since the way of adoption and attracting user attention will be significantly distinct.
What is a platform
Generally speaking, a computing platform or digital platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. You might hear about Java. Java is a programming language and a computing platform for application development. Java platform is a collection of programs, tools, compilers, libraries, etc., that help to develop and run programs written in the Java programming language. Thus, a developer can use the Internet for data transferring and communication, work with resources on a given operating system, create fancy UI, etc.
