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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by joosters on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:08PM (#17305011)
The South Sea bubble is by far a better comparison. It even had ICOs (sort of) and token trading!
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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by joshuahedlund on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:09PM (#17306080)
See "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" (public domain on Gutenburg[0]) for both of these and more!

[0]http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518

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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by notahacker on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @06:54PM (#17307706)
Someone really needs to do a "For carrying-on an undertaking of great advantage but no-one to know what it is!" ICO
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Re:Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Rese... by joosters on Thursday June 14, 2018 @12:25AM (#17309272)
Hey, some ICOs even make it clear that you won't get any of the profits, so perhaps the description can be reduced to just 'For carrying-on an undertaking but no-one to know what it is!'
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