Brexit isn't the only car crash in town

crypto is collapsing

For those of you needing a distraction from the pervasive Brexit omnishambles (thick of it link NSFW unless your workplace is fun/sweary), we (well the FT) bring you the Great Crypto Crash of November 2018.

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that's bitcoin (small) and Ether/Etherium (big)

people on the internet seemed to think the collapse in the last 24 hours was related to the fact that bitcoin cash — a kind of clone that was “forked” from the original last year when developers couldn't agree on how to allow for more bitcoin transactions — was . . . forking off again.

Remember when people told you bitcoin had finally stabilised?

initiative Q *is* dodgy. Don’t go anywhere near it pls. 

But crypto isn’t dodgy as a whole. The Bitcoin Cash fork drama is an internal political struggle for power basically. Bitcoin is not directly part of it - nor is Ethereum but there are threats of Bitcoin being sold in large numbers to fund the Cash struggle so the whole market is nervy. It will pass