Between 2016 and 2018, cryptocurrencies produced a bona fide financial bubble. Nothing typified the madness better than the craze for initial coin offerings meant to fund software projects that promised to revolutionise everything from online gaming to file storage. Maybe you invested. More likely, you intuited something was awry when your Uber driver started asking for crypto recommendations and a friend began touting a blockchain-based ledger designed to track marijuana supply chains.
2016年至2018年期間,加密貨幣產生了真正的金融泡沫。最能體現這種瘋狂的莫過於人們對「首次代幣發行」(ICO)的狂熱,這種首次代幣發行的目的是爲軟體項目提供資金,這些項目有望革一切東西的命——從在線遊戲到檔案存儲。或許你已經投資。更有可能的是,當Uber(Uber)司機開始讓你推薦加密貨幣,朋友開始吹捧一種用於追蹤大麻供應鏈的、基於區塊鏈的分類賬簿時,你的直覺告訴你,出了問題。