The Fall of Cryptocurrency

Ed Zitron
3 min readMay 11, 2022

We live in interesting times, specifically times that involve the cryptocurrency markets partially or completely unravelling. We are currently experiencing a crash of sorts, but it’s not apparent whether this is a crash or “the” crash — the latter being similar to the 2017 crash that brought Bitcoin from a high of around $19,000 to a low of under $4000.

In any case, here’s what’s happened:

  • The “stablecoin” (a coin that theoretically is always worth, say, a dollar) Terra has completely fallen apart, due to the fact that its algorithmic balancing machine…

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Ed Zitron

CEO @EZPR . British. 2x author, writer @thisisinsider , @TheAtlantic — Top 50 @bitech tech PR 4x — http://ez.substack.com — The BBQ Joker