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Re:Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far by dwaltrip on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @04:30AM (#15291720)
Fair enough, those are all good points. Do you have knowledge of wash trading and accounting issues at at any of the major USD exchanges? I know bitfinex was hacked last year (and paid everyone back?), and there have recently been some strange rumors around bitfinex and Tether, but that is all I have heard.

And do you believe this crash/correction will be lethal? Or will Bitcoin "die" and rise again?

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Re:Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far by joosters on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @05:23AM (#15291917)
Bitfinex & Tether seem to be the two major suspects here (or is that just one? their ownership links are murky, to say the least)

https://twitter.com/bitfinexed single-mindedly covers the dodgy company. If there was some way of filtering their tweets to show just the linked articles and not all the comments/retweeting noise, you could find some good coverage of the issue.

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Re:Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far by Laforet on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @04:42AM (#15291769)
As long as there are two bitcoin nodes remaining to update the ledger we could call it "not dead", but the token would probably not be worth much by that point. And bitcoin probably have a hard time to recover due to the amount of cruft and technical debt it has.

My best guess is that it could go through more boom/bust cycles before speculators move on; actual users have already started to move to other cryptos as we speak.

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