to cryptocurrency true believers bitcoin is the ultimate store of value the most solid hedge against the rampant inflation manufactured by reckless central banks and their moneyprinting to skeptics the crypto world as a whole is a mirage whose massive runup past 2 trillion was simply the speculative byproduct of the extraordinary amount of easy cash that’s been sloshing around in the global economy in effect a big bubble both of those theories are about to face their biggest test yet