Never let a good crisis go to waste. A near-existential disaster seems to have hit the cryptosphere: FTX, a big exchange that enjoyed a $32bn valuation in January, has collapsed with an $8bn hole. FTX’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried — hitherto crypto’s friendly face — is mired in allegations that his firm misplaced or misused client money. Confidence in the wider crypto market — its stock-in-trade — has been badly hit, with bitcoin tumbling in value. The time for politicians, policymakers and regulators to put protections in place is now.
永遠不要浪費一次好的危機。加密貨幣領域遭遇的看上去近乎一場滅頂之災：1月份估值還有320億美元的大型交易所FTX已經破產，留下80億美元的窟窿。FTX的創始人薩姆?班克曼-弗里德(Sam Bankman-Fried)——此前一直是形象可親的加密貨幣代言人——陷入了對其公司亂配置或濫用客戶資金的指控。隨著比特幣價值暴跌，對整體加密貨幣市場的信心受到了嚴重打擊?，F在是政治家、政策制定者和監管機構出臺保護措施的時候了。