“Crypto” fans, it is time we grew up
The new record shows that bitcoin is more resilient than many imagined. But some challenges persist in crypto-asset innovation. The sector has more to gain from facing them than from fighting them.
8 July 2016. It was two minutes past five in the afternoon when I published my first article about bitcoin in the national press. The headline: “The value of bitcoin is high. But it should rise even further.”
More ironic still, the story began like this: “At the time of publication of this article, a single bitcoin cost 582.65 euros.”
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AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 21 October 2021.