Will FinTech kill the tooth fairy?

Chris Gledhill
3 min readNov 9, 2021

The Tinkerbell effect is an expression describing things that are thought to exist only because people believe in them. The effect is named after Tinker Bell, the fairy in the play Peter Pan, who is revived from near death by the audience who are told, “if you believe in fairies clap you hands”. In that sense, fairies and crypto meme coins have a lot in common — they get stronger the more people believe and tweet about them and…

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