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by MartinCron 4488 days ago
You also don't need hindsight to know that investing/trading/speculating in a brand new type of asset in a space with nearly zero regulatory controls is not for the faint of heart.

Just like the handful of people who realized that the Bernie Madoff claims were too good to possibly be true, they didn't need hindsight. There's a great This American Life story about one such person: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/376/w...