The cryptocurrency sector enduring a potential bear market is welcoming news, says Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain. Speaking in a recent interview with Bloomberg, Buterin purports that the industry would benefit from entering another “crypto winter.” So far this year, token prices have experienced an immense slide. “The people who are deep into crypto, and especially building things, a lot of them welcome a bear market,” he told the business news network. “They welcome the bear market because when there are these long periods of prices moving up by huge amounts like it does—it does obviously make a lot of people happy—but it does also tend to invite a lot of very short-term speculative attention.” The last crypto winter occurred in 2018. Since then, protocols, virtual currencies, and the broader technology have blossomed. Today, the sector enjoys a market capitalization rate of $1.7 trillion and oversees nearly …