The timing was somewhat curious, yet understandable given the actual context. If something like it happened today, it would’ve been splashed all over the headlines. Even as the prices of digital currencies face renewed pressure to begin 2022, there can be no doubt in terms of newsworthiness and attention a good proportion of the global public has bought in on the craze, even if not all of them literally.
Officials from various official development banks had gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the 10th annual BRICS summit. But this was July 2018 during the so-called Bitcoin “winter”, not July 2021 at the height of the latest crypto bubble.
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