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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb Calls Bitcoin a Tulip Bubble Withou... by nuerow on Saturday October 23, 2021 @11:07AM (#28969200)
> Sounds like TSLA and many other publicly traded companies are bad stores of value according to that argument.

If you intend to have a serious and honest discussion on crypto then the very least you should do is go acknowledge the frequent crashes that result in halving their market value. For instance, BTC still hasn't recovered from the latest crash a few months ago, when it tanked to half it's value almost overnight.

Otherwise, these nin-sequiturs don't lead anywhere.

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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb Calls Bitcoin a Tulip Bubble Withou... by ashwagary on Sunday October 24, 2021 @09:23AM (#28977660)
>For instance, BTC still hasn't recovered from the latest crash a few months ago...

Bad take, you obviously haven't seen the price chart in a while. BTC had new all time highs just a few days ago.

Tesla has halved and recovered multiple times as well. Feel free to put forth a better argument, this one is weak.

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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb Calls Bitcoin a Tulip Bubble Withou... by lostmsu on Saturday October 23, 2021 @04:19PM (#28971862)
If you want serious discussion, you should first realize, that there's no "gold standard" of value and it is all relative. So there's not much difference in saying that BTC crashed 50% from its peak, from saying every other currency crashed 50% when BTC was at its peak.
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb Calls Bitcoin a Tulip Bubble Withou... by kobasa on Saturday October 23, 2021 @04:33PM (#28971975)
"For instance, BTC still hasn't recovered from the latest crash a few months ago" it made new ATHs this week. I mean what do you people want, that it always stays at ATH every single ticking second? Zoom the f out ffs.
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