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“Those who bought bitcoin when it was worth $1 have made a 4,100,000% return”

Crypto Wars

Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption

Erica Stanford Kogan Page, £14.99

No asset class has captured the public imagination in quite the same way as bitcoin and digital currencies have, at least not since the dotcom boom made internet shares the “must-have” investment two decades ago. In the last five, Erica Stanford takes a look at some of the scams and scandals that have made cryptocurrencies the investing equivalent of the “Wild West”.

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