Cryptocurrencies - a lost opportunity? | GIS: Global Trends Video Reports
25 April 2018



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Opinion: A lost opportunity for cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are volatile, but could prove useful by injecting a needed element of competition into the realm of monetary policy and finance. Rather than allow this, however, governments will probably step in to regulate them, perhaps under global supervision. If that happens, we will have missed an opportunity ...

Professor Enrico Colombatto
Cryptocurrencies have been making headlines lately. The best known of them – Bitcoin – has made rich those who bought early a few years ago and punished those who came late.
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