Crypto investors crushed by the worst bitcoin plunge since 2022.

Bitcoin was supposed to be the new digital gold, but you know what's been performing really well. Gold. Backers have sold cryptocurrency as the ultimate hedge against the dollar, against inflation, against global instability.And evangelists claimed that once regulatory opponents got out of the way, that Bitcoin would thrive. But even in an environment when crypto should be doing well, where it has friends in the White House and the cabinet and in the regulatory agencies, it isn't. Crypto investors have been ...