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What's Wrong With John Oliver's Bitcoin-Beanie Baby Comparison

Comedian John Oliver rightly warned his audience about the risks of cryptocurrency, but his comparisons to Beanie Babies and gambling missed the mark.

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Thomson Reuters Is Using Your Feelings About Bitcoin to Make Investors Rich

Thomson Reuters has launched a bitcoin analysis product that uses AI to analyze how industry insiders feel about the cryptocurrency.

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Bitcoin Eyes $10K, But Charts Hint at Bull Trap Potential

Bitcoin's corrective rally from Friday's low of $8,371 seems to have legs, but gains above $10,000 may be transient.

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Why the 'Worst' Crypto Networks Will Be The Biggest

From a network design perspective, bitcoin is ugly. As with as city, you have to experience it from a bottom-up perspective to understand its allure.

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Ponzis and Death: The Stranger Ways to Lose Crypto

Scams, death, network takeover attacks. There's no shortage of strange ways users can lose money in the cryptocurrency wild west.

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Making Sense of Crypto Asset Valuation Insanity

A crypto hedge fund co-founder argues that while crypto investors are going wild today, the markets will eventually return to real valuations.

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A Bitcoin Twitter War Is Raging And No Account Is Safe

A years-long intellectual debate on bitcoin's technological roadmap has spilled over into Twitter, resulting in a wave of suspicions and shadowbans.

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Dutch Finance Minister Calls for ICO Regulations

The finance minister of the Netherlands has called for new regulations around cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings.

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Bitcoin Dropped 20% But Wasn't Week's Big Crypto Price Loser

How bad were the crypto markets this week? Bitcoin lost nearly one-quarter of its value and it still wasn't the week's big loser.

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Bears in Control, But Bitcoin Eyes $8K Defense

Bitcoin's 28 percent drop this week has turned the tide in favor of the bears, but a sustained break below $8,000 looks unlikely in the short-run.

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