Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.China made big headlines when it banned crypto last year, but it is only one of dozens of countries and jurisdictions that have banned digital currency either outright, or severely restricted it over the past few years. Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, Oman, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Bangladesh and China have all banned cryptocurrency completely. Forty-two other countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, and Bolivia, have implicitly banned digital currencies by putting restrictions on the ability for banks to deal with crypto,...