Cryptocurrencies

A Verbal Cryptobrawl Breaks Out at Milken Over Bitcoin's Future

  • Sides square off on whether cryptoassets can change the world
  • Nouriel Roubini gets colorful, internet pioneers push back
Nouriel Roubini Says Bitcoin 'Much Worse' Than Tulip Mania
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A cryptocurrencies panel at the Milken Institute Global Conference was more like a cryptobrawl -- no punches but a barrage of barbed comments.

“All this talk of decentralization is just bullsh*t,” said Nouriel Roubini, an economist known as Dr. Doom for predicting the chaos of the 2008 financial crisis.