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Re:Beyond the boring blockchain bubble by avaer on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:23AM (#14945681)
The solution is for the market to correct itself (if it is thus insane as claimed). If that happens it will be very very hard for the greedy to find buyers or sympathy.
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Re:Beyond the boring blockchain bubble by doktrin on Monday August 07, 2017 @08:05AM (#14946875)
Why would the market correct itself? What could possibly cause a crash, short of some kind of catastrophic security vulnerability being discovered, or hostile regulation in one of the core markets?
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Re:Beyond the boring blockchain bubble by mhb on Monday August 07, 2017 @08:17AM (#14946928)
Because tulips?
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Re:Beyond the boring blockchain bubble by mrb on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:30PM (#14949947)
It was funny to compare Bitcoin to tulips back in 2010. However the Bitcoin ecosystem has now sustained impressive growth—by all metrics—for 8 straight years... I think we are past the "it's tulips" stage.
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Re:Beyond the boring blockchain bubble by mhb on Friday August 11, 2017 @08:51AM (#14989118)
When someone asks Why would the market correct itself?, the comparison with tulips seems completely appropriate.
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Re:Beyond the boring blockchain bubble by doktrin on Monday August 07, 2017 @08:33AM (#14947009)
Fair. A liquidation race is certainly plausible.
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