The crypto solution to all our problems
Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, tokens, crypto assets, crypto this, crypto that…it's a wave of new terms with a video game ring to them that, for some years now, have invaded both the most important financial and technological news and the inane chatter of nephews at Sunday family lunches. Everyone, with their own particular mix of curiosity and aversion to novelty, has a different understanding of what crypto technology means, but its growing ubiquity and the current economic and political volatility of our environment demand that we finally 1) understand what it's all about and 2) decide: are cryptocurrencies trustworthy?