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Re:SecondMarket CEO: Wall Street Will Put 'Hundreds of Milli... by etherael on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @10:48PM (#6892684)
Because the concept of an instantly transferable easily stored and hidden immune from state control pseudonymous electronic currency having any amount of success is clearly just as random and unpredictable as the result of a roulette wheel spin.
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Re:SecondMarket CEO: Wall Street Will Put 'Hundreds of Milli... by harryh on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @10:58PM (#6892718)
Maybe, maybe not. That's certainly a topic worth discussing.

I was just refuting a3voices's assertion that a rise in value alone made it a good investment. That's outcome based thinking and it's wrong.

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Re:SecondMarket CEO: Wall Street Will Put 'Hundreds of Milli... by brador on Thursday December 12, 2013 @12:43AM (#6892988)
You're picking out the positives and purposefully avoiding the negatives.
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Re:SecondMarket CEO: Wall Street Will Put 'Hundreds of Milli... by etherael on Thursday December 12, 2013 @03:49AM (#6893494)
No analysis no matter how biased is going to seriously come to the conclusion that bitcoin having any success is purely as random as a roulette wheel. I challenge you to come up with something even vaguely plausible along these lines, no matter how pessimistic you want to get.
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