Davos speakers round on cryptocurrency as Robert Shiller calls it a clever belief with an impermanent futureThe Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Shiller has said bitcoin will not be a “permanent feature” of the financial world,as politicians indicated that a clampdown on cryptocurrencies was coming. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, Shiller hailed bitcoin as a really clever belief”. But although he was impressed with the technology behind it, and he was concerned that it had “gone viral as a currency”.
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Source: theguardian.com