The Cryptocurrency-Asset Bubble- World Economic Forum Davos 2018

Valuations of bitcoin have reached unprecedented highs, and there are now close to 1,000 different crypto-assets on the market. Are these assets finally coming into their own or are they the seed of the next financial crisis? This session was developed in partnership with Yicai. · Neil Rimer, General Partner and Co-Founder, Index Ventures, Switzerland · Jennifer Zhu Scott, Principal, Radian Partners, Hong Kong SAR; Young Global Leader · Robert J. Shiller, Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University, USA · Cecilia Skingsley, Deputy Governor, Swedish Central Bank (Sveriges Riksbank), Sweden Moderated by · Yang Yanqing, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Yicai Media Group, People’s Republic of China http://www.weforum.org/