As currency plummets, Turks turn to crypto

Turkey’s economic crisis has pushed a lot of Turkish people to test a new financial platform: cryptocurrency. Analysts say Turkey has by far the highest cryptocurrency transaction volume in the Middle East. But as The World’s Durrie Bourcaren reports from Istanbul, betting on crypto is a high-risk proposition.

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