Don't mourn for crypto: it's leaping back to life

Don't mourn for crypto: it's leaping back to life
Naysayers said cryptocurrencies were dead, but regulation could change that. (Image: Getty)
Warren Couillault
Not since Mark Twain have reports of a death been so greatly exaggerated. Calling something dead and buried is a fast and easy way to set yourself above the crowd as an expert. Even better when the thing you are pronouncing deceased rose from technological obscurity to a high-powered asset, made a few institutional investors and a multitude of armchair stockpickers very wealthy, and then collapsed. I am, of course, talking about cryptocurrency, that enigmatic asset class called by naysayers ‘rat poison’, ‘a Ponzi sch...

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