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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by kristopolous on Friday August 11, 2017 @07:57AM (#14988706)
Depends on whether assets or debt will be leveraged for speculation and whether futures contracts will be used as some kind of meta-currency.

Then you have contagions because it will erode trust in other sectors. Economies kinda freeze up without trust or reliable value propositions.

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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by jliptzin on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:24AM (#14989374)
Speculation sure but I don't see how leverage can get too high with a hard limit to the number of bitcoins floating around. Not like option contracts for example where you create as many as you want out of thin air.
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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour by matthewbauer on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:21PM (#14993269)
Well the leverage would be in option contracts on Bitcoin. These are already available on some exchanges.
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