What’s highly resistant to 40-year high inflation and malingering COVID-19 (and now monkey pox) fears? The idea of winning money, of course, explaining the 2022 boom in casino gambling.
With cryptocurrencies in tatters after months of hammering by pessimists (and possibly realists), those who bet big on bitcoin have watched those wagers weaken from a high of $68,000 last November, with TIME’s Next Advisor reporting Thursday (Aug. 4) that “the most extreme crypto skeptics say bitcoin…