Neil Gandal and Tyler Moore via The Conversation | Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have grown in popularity in large part because they can be bought and sold without a government or other third party overseeing everything. But there’s a flipside: Unlike in markets for other assets such as stocks or bonds, it makes it much harder to uncover price manipulation and fraud.

Venezuela has been the last to join the cryptocurrency trend by launchinng the so called “petro” in order to combat the US blockade. As reported by Chris Iggo, CIO Fixed Income, at AXA IM, “all the volatility in financial markets seems to have been transported into the virtual world of bitcoin trading”