Best of 2022: The cult of crypto: How $2 trillion went up in flames

In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.

It promised a financial revolution - a liberation from money middlemen. But then the $3 trillion industry of cryptocurrency lost two thirds of its value in six months. So was it all a cult of personality? Or is the revolution still to come?

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Guest: Danny Fortson, West Coast Correspondent, The Sunday Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: CNN, BBC News, CNBC, Danny in the Valley, CoinDesk, CBS, Crypto Mason, CryptoJack, Blake O'Neal.

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