Dutch Official Predicts Crypto Market Crash, Says ‘the Netherlands Must Ban B...

Dutch Official Predicts Crypto Market Crash, Says ‘the Netherlands Must Ban B...

The director of the Netherlands’ Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, a part of the country’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, has predicted “The ultimate collapse of the crypto bubble.” He urges the government to ban bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies immediately. However, the country’s finance minister disagrees that banning cryptocurrency is right for the country. CPB Director Wants Cryptocurrencies Banned Pieter Hasekamp, director of CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), published an article on the official CPB website....


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