• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Bubbles are about capitol investment not a single product. The crypto bubble, like the dot com bubble, are so named because hype inflated the value and when they popped investors (in capitol not crypto currency) lost a lot of money and people lost jobs not because the product went away.

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      In technologies around crypto, not in crypto. Crypto exchanges like Coinbase that maintained some ethical standards did just fine.