The volatile price swings of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have minted millionaires and left others drowning in debt, results not unlike those seen in, say, a game of no-limit Texas hold'em.
On Wednesday, a committee in the U.K.'s parliament made explicit the link between trading crypto and trading in poker chips, writing in a report that "consumer speculation in unbacked cryptoassets more closely resembles gambling than it does a financial service."
