British Pound Less Stable than Bitcoin Post-Brexit
In the aftermath of the United Kingdom’s departure vote from the European Union, Bitcoin became more stable than the British pound. During the days leading up to and immediately following the Brexit vote, the pound’s instability increased, while Bitcoin’s continued to decline, eventually falling below the pound in early July, according to a graph by Bloomberg. This is significant because of both Bitcoin’s historic volatility and the pound’s historic stability, being the currency of one of the world’s consistently largest economies. Lily Allen’s Bitcoin tweet. The news of Bitcoin winning....
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