This photo taken on February 12, 2026 shows a Vietnamese cryptocurrency investor looking at the latest Bitcoin values on a laptop in Hanoi. As a first-year computer science student in Hanoi, Hoang Le started trading crypto from his university dorm room, egged on by his gamer friends who were making a killing, and at one point his digital holdings swelled to $200,000 -- around 50 times the average annual income in Vietnam. But they crashed to zero when the bottom fell out of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in recent months. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'VIETNAM-ECONOMY-CRYPTO,FOCUS' by Lam NGUYEN