How the wealthy learned to love crypto

High net-worth individuals once eschewed cryptocurrencies. When Covid hit, many learned to embrace them. They see the danger of endless QE and the returns to be generated in the world of decentralized finance.

When the book is written on bitcoin, blockchain and the world of decentralized finance or ‘DeFi’, two events will matter above most others.

The first took place in October 2020, when American hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones described bitcoin as “the best inflation trade” around, just as a fear of rising prices began to bite. The day before he said it the token was trading at $11,936. A month later it was at $18,591. Within six months it topped $60,000.

The second involves Jamie Dimon.

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