The Year of the Doge? 2021, crypto’s wildest year yet By Reuters – Investing.com
- Date: 30-Dec-2021
- Source: Investing.com
- Sector:Financial Markets
- Country:Middle East
The Year of the Doge? 2021, crypto’s wildest year yet By Reuters – Investing.com
By Tom Wilson and Elizabeth Howcroft
LONDON (Reuters) - close to $70,000, "memecoins" worth billions of dollars, a blockbuster Wall Street listing and a sweeping Chinese crackdown: 2021 was the wildest yet for cryptocurrencies, even by the sector's volatile standards.
Digital assets started the year with a stampede of cash from investors large and small. And bitcoin and its kin were rarely out of the spotlight since, with the language of crypto becoming firmly entrenched in the investor lexicon.