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by staticman2 1794 days ago
There's more to economics, business, and technology than making up assertions like "This is the Iphone of _______".
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New platforms often look like toys. They have limited features, are not always faster, and are usually more expensive. This makes them easy to dismiss.

People often analyze Bitcoin's price volatility, the way it is manipulated in unregulated trade. They then assert that this asset must be as valueless and useless as the patterns it trades under. Bitcoin the asset is no longer separable from the hustlers profiting from it. Bitcoin, the network, the platform, the technology, somehow becomes the scam.