(NYTIMES) - If the stock market isn't the economy - which it isn't - then cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin really, really aren't the economy.
Still, crypto has become a pretty big asset class (and yielded huge capital gains to many buyers); by last autumn the combined market value of cryptocurrencies had reached almost US$3 trillion (S$4.1 trillion).
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