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Re:S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in... by pashamur on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:55PM (#25292899)
Technically, everyone in the U.S. was an investor in gold up until 1971 since USD was supposedly backed 1-1 by gold :)
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Re:S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in... by misnamed on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:38PM (#25295469)
It's a little trickier than that, but yes, that's why I mentioned 50 years. Before that gold was a different animal.
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