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| It’s really hard to kill cockroaches. Stamping on them, chopping off their head and even flushing them down the toilet won’t work. Much like cryptocurrency—an industry which, despite some recent setbacks, seems able to bounce back when you least expect it. 00:00 Why crypto is like cockroaches 00:25 Crypto is soaring 00:48 Why is crypto so hard to kill? Sign up to our weekly finance newsletter to keep up to date: https://econ.st/3P3zTG8 Listen to our Money Talks podcast: https://econ.st/3Sa2gEY Read more of our finance stories: https://econ.st/48PSZsP More on our cockroach theory of crypto: https://econ.st/3OeZqxb Decoding Sam Bankman-Fried: https://econ.st/3HwCzcP More on the fall of crypto bosses: https://econ.st/3HyebHG |
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