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Re:SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund ... by mrb on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:22PM (#13843017)
You must be unfamiliar with financial markets. Many assets have lost 25% in minutes and still considered perfectly acceptable store of value: stocks, commodities, etc.
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Re:SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund ... by LoSboccacc on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:32PM (#13843076)
Don't forget the euro a couple years ago reached parity with dollars in a couple months and people like ma that were saving to emigrate got thousands dollars in flames.
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Re:SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund ... by throwaway12486 on Friday March 10, 2017 @11:05PM (#13844154)
The Indian Rupee ha lost ~40% of its value after 2011.
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Re:SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund ... by Spooky23 on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:13PM (#13843280)
Few viable currencies do so.
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