Retail Traders Lashed by Crypto Rout After Wall Street Bet Big
(Bloomberg) — Retail investors who piled into the Trump administration’s promised crypto paradise via Wall Street-approved funds are now learning an expensive lesson in market gravity.
Bitcoin and a slew of newly minted altcoin exchange-traded funds have crashed, erasing all gains made since just before Donald Trump retook the White House and wiping out the speculative premium that had defined the era’s digital-asset boom.
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Despite the president’s pledge to make America the world’s crypto capital, Bitcoin has plunged 50% from its peak to trade around $63,000. Cryptocurrencies beyond Bitcoin have fared even worse, with a gauge tracking 50 smaller tokens tumbling 67% from a recent peak in…
