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Re:EFF no longer accepts donations in Bitcoins by tokenadult on Thursday June 02, 2011 @01:50PM (#2613060)
I think Bitcoin is fascinating

I do too, for the same reason that the tulip mania in the Dutch Golden Age

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_17/b3678084.htm

or the South Sea Bubble

http://www.investopedia.com/features/crashes/crashes3.asp

are still fascinating. I've known about those failed investment strategies since childhood, but I still see fully grown human beings falling for strategies that are no more reasonable.

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Re:EFF no longer accepts donations in Bitcoins by VladRussian on Thursday June 02, 2011 @02:59PM (#2613388)
>The demand for investments caused IPOs to sprout out of everything, including companies that promised to reclaim sunshine from vegetables and to build floating mansions to extend Britain's landmass. They all sold like mad.

looks like supposedly "green" technologies like ethanol from corn are back again 300 years later.

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