Win none, lose some: the crypto-Fomo fail

Win none, lose some: the crypto-Fomo fail
Temasek admitted it may have been seduced by the public persona of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. (Image: Getty)
David Chaplin
Everybody loses money, sometimes; everybody drops their coins, somehow.That sometime was yesterday for person or persons unknown who, in two possibly unrelated incidents, carelessly left a total of $6 lying around for somebody, someplace to find.My lucky day, I guess.But what’s a few dollars here and there? Or even the A$250 million ($270m) reported lost by the Australian stock exchange (ASX) last week after writing down the value of its ill-fated blockchain-based share-trading platform upgrade.“This will have no impact on dividends...

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