For true cryptocurrency believers, Bitcoin is the ultimate store of value, the strongest hedge against the rampant inflation manufactured by reckless central banks and their money printing. To skeptics, the crypto world as a whole is a mirage whose massive rise of over $ 2 trillion was simply the speculative by-product of the extraordinary amount of easy cash that has been circulating in the global economy; indeed, a big bubble.
Both theories are about to face their biggest test yet.
