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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by grubles on Friday February 05, 2016 @06:07PM (#11045370)
Is it bad when I'm thinking of selling some bitcoin in order to take advantage of a volatile stock?
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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by maaku on Friday February 05, 2016 @06:17PM (#11045432)
Yes.
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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by jacquesm on Friday February 05, 2016 @06:38PM (#11045555)
Why? Bitcoin is at least as volatile as the most volatile stocks.
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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by grubles on Friday February 05, 2016 @07:02PM (#11045686)
Should I have added some sort of sarcasm tag to my comment? It was a joke :).
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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by grubles on Friday February 05, 2016 @11:15PM (#11046521)
It was a joke mostly because Bitcoin is legitimately innovative and Linkedin is yet-another-social-media-platform-except-for-Serious-Business. No one gripes about investing in stocks even though they (they being one of the biggest companies) can obviously tank 50% in one year. However, every post even remotely related to cryptocurrency will have, guaranteed, a comment or 10 about how "No one will ever invest in this because it is too volatile." It's just an observation of mine.
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