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doc03

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2. What I am seeing is another bubble like the 2000 .com bubble and the 2008 derivatives

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 22, 2021, 08:31 PM

Jan 2021

or whatever they called them. I am thinking that maybe they are the next damn Wall Street scam to bilk
Americans out of trillions of dollars because it's too big to fail. It appears some people have made lots of money from
them so far..

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I have seen Bitcoin ATM machines lately. Can someone explain why I would [View all] doc03 Jan 2021 OP

seperate you from your actual money? nt msongs Jan 2021 #1

What I am seeing is another bubble like the 2000 .com bubble and the 2008 derivatives doc03 Jan 2021 #2

A nice convenient way to rid yourself of your money. 5X Jan 2021 #3

It's just another currency. Why exchange dollars for euro or pesos? unblock Jan 2021 #4

More privacy like money laundering and tax evasion? nt doc03 Jan 2021 #5

Possibly, but I think people make too much of that. unblock Jan 2021 #6

For many BTC is not used for transactions masmdu Jan 2021 #7

Apparently nobody is worrying about the enormous amount of electricity progree Jan 2021 #8

Not true with ADA as it is proof of "stake" masmdu Jan 2021 #9

I've seen videos of respectable older and prominent investors bucolic_frolic Jan 2021 #10

To get around sanctions, Iran embraced Bitcoin. Now with polluted skies and grid failures, progree Jan 2021 #11