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Bitcoin slumped through $6 000 on Thursday, leading a rout of cryptocurrencies amid a wider global risk asset sell-off over the intensifying coronavirus crisis.

Arguments that the largest digital token acts as a place of shelter during market turmoil diminished this week as bitcoin slumped amid an intense bout of equity-market selling.

Predictions that bitcoin would collapse have not borne fruit. Despite its bubbles and crashes, the cryptocurrency is now a semi-permanent feature of the financial landscape. What it is not, however, is a generally accepted currency.

Every generation or so, money goes through an evolutionary shift, and 10 years from now the fiat currencies currently in use will be regarded as relics of a bygone age, much like the fax machine.