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by stickac 1308 days ago
The study finds that "majority of people who invest in crypto inevitably lose money", but the article puts "Bitcoin" in title to mislead the readers.

So:

Do people lose money when they invest into crypto? Yes.

Do people lose money when they invest into Bitcoin? No (if their timespan is 5+ years).

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The problem is that exponentially fewer people qualify the latter condition.

Put it another way, for Bitcoin to retain its price, an exponentially increasingly number of people need to invest in it. Such a structure, when graphed, looks very similar to a certain geometric shape