Digital tokens offer gambling highs 24/7, as gullible punters bet big on volatile coins that enrich exchanges, ruin lives and abet crimes.
Browsing: Lionel Laurent
Crypto hasn’t yet caused a real-world economic meltdown, but regulators are right not to let this crisis go to waste.
A minority of Swedes said in a survey they’d used cash in the previous 30 days. The direction of travel is the same everywhere.
Europe is where ChatGPT gets regulated, not invented. That’s something to regret.
In the league of weak-sauce apologies, the one from cryptocurrency exchange boss Sam Bankman-Fried stands head and shoulders above the rest.
There aren’t many silver linings to be found in the cryptocurrency crash. One welcome casualty is the army of laser-eyed social media “influencers”.
It’s time for regulators to reflect on the real-world impact of the next boom-and-bust crypto cycle.
Crypto has traditionally been user-agnostic. But there’s a bigger dose of reality here for its utopian narrative of “borderless” and “stateless” money as bombs rain down on Europe’s doorstep.
The cryptocurrency crowd has wasted no time in dancing on the grave of China’s “FUD” (Internet speak for fear, uncertainty and doubt). By Lionel Laurent.
Investors are being forced into bitcoin and gold by persistent monetary stimulus by global central banks, which has eroded the store-of-value characteristics from traditional financial markets. By Rob Price.