David Honigmann

Has crypto finally had its day?

It was a born of a specific macroclimate of low interest rates following the global financial crisis – but all that is melting away and, in the case of crypto, not before time

Sam Bankman-Fried in Hong Kong in May 2021. [Getty Images] 
issue 14 October 2023

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