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Keeping your head when others are losing theirs

Pointing to gold, the only important exception to the intrinsic-value rule is a very weak justification for arguing that Bitcoin will retain its value

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Avinash Luthria
We will most likely remember 2021 as the year in which a lot of people lost their heads. It is impossible to forecast how long it will take the mob to regain its sanity. These are the top four ways in which the mob lost its head in 2021.

Bitcoin mania

Bitcoin does not have any intrinsic value. The only argument that Bitcoin fans have is that gold, too, has very little intrinsic value. Firstly, it is absurd for several large cryptocurrencies to claim that they alone are the new form of gold. Second, pointing to gold, which is the only important
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