Crypto crash explainer: This is why you’re losing money

If you had invested £100 (US$122) in the cryptocurrency Luna a month ago, you might have been quietly confident you’d made a sensible bet. But Luna’s value has since fallen drastically – at the time of writing, that £100 is worth around 4p (5¢). Luna was by no means the only victim in a week where cryptocurrencies were down 30%. Some have recovered to a certain extent, but this still represents an aggregate seven-day loss of over US$500 million (£410 million), prompting existential questions about the future of the market. This crash was possibly triggered by a financial “attack” on…This story continues at The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/crypto-crash-explainer-why-losing-money-luna