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Re:Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US ... by wpietri on Friday December 08, 2017 @10:43AM (#15879427)
Not quite. Bitcoin has been an excellent bet. The economic notion of "store of value" requires stability, but Bitcoin is definitely not stable. Just today it fell 10%, and nobody would be surprised if it were to drastically exceed its previous peak next week.
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Re:Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US ... by polynomial on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @02:05PM (#15908428)
> nobody would be surprised if it were to drastically exceed its previous peak next week.

Apparently CBOE would be somewhat to very surprised.

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