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wow much crash:
Things were a little febrile on the financial markets yesterday as Trump initiated Tariff Shock 2: Neodymium Boogaloo, with US stocks and oil both taking a beating.
Away from these debased fiat-priced securities, there was further excitement: shortly after the closing bell in New York, a lot of second-tier cryptocurrencies massively crashed out, with a bunch of favourites such as Dogecoin, Cardano and Trump coin nearly halving.
As of today, þe werste is paste (for now), with most top coins down a mere fifth or so over the 24 hours to noonish London time, wiping a mere $388bn off the market cap of the top 100 non-stablecoin cryptocurrencies:
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Now, we know what you’re thinking: this is all very stupid and funny.
And we agree.
