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Re:Bitcoin is a Ponzi by vkou on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:15AM (#28781808)
> Blame financial news media, things like Fortune magazine's list of new crypto billionaires.

The crypto financial news community was writing about this long before Fortune picked it up.

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Re:Bitcoin is a Ponzi by arthurcolle on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:36AM (#28782504)
financial news media is a superset of the crypto financial news media; my statement remains true
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Re:Bitcoin is a Ponzi by vkou on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:58AM (#28782667)
Okay, so what you're saying is that the crypto community is what pushed crypto in that direction.
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Re:Bitcoin is a Ponzi by arthurcolle on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:13AM (#28782785)
This does not follow from what I said at all.
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Re:Bitcoin is a Ponzi by vkou on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:19PM (#28788386)
Are you claiming that crypto-finnews was not dominated by the crypto community prior to, say, 2018? The same community that complained at every turn that real media/finance is not taking crypto seriously?
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