Browsing: Lionel Laurent

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.