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Re:Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL by darawk on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @02:47PM (#14657077)
It's a mixture of all the answers. It's hype. It's FUD. It's pump and dump. It's groundbreaking technology. It's real world use-cases, and it's vaporware. And it's the greater fool theory on a grand scale. It's all the things simultaneously. In other words, it's a market.

TenX is actually, despite it's name, probably not a pump and dump, for instance (disclaimer: some of that 30M in 1 minute is mine). It's a credit card that links up to various cryptocurrency wallets, and allows you to make real world purchases using them. The token you buy in the ICO entitles you to a portion of the fees collected from processing the transactions.

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Re:Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL by hueving on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:04PM (#14657752)
Nobody in the history of pump and dumps invested in one tells people that it is one.
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Re:Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL by darawk on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @06:39PM (#14659170)
That is definitional. I invested in it because I don't think it's a pump and dump. I could be wrong. If you're investing based solely on the opinion of others on the internet, you're making a mistake anyway.
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