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I was watching a CNN news story about the real wolf of wall street (that the movie was based on). Dude is super smart and as usual the news reporters don't know what they're talking about. But, he goes into the emotions behind this stuff. Anyway, he also agrees it's a time bomb. What goes up must come down and all.
Jeremy Falcon
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Why not spend it on more bitcoin? 
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Sir, I would suggest the Park Lane property.
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If buying some coins I would treasure some Krugerrand.
I am an oldschool treasurer 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Yay! You're a multimillionaire!
Give us a few hundred thousand, will yer?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Some horrid, scurrilous, misguided people have had the nerve to suggest that the cyber-criminal's currency of choice might be a new take on the good old Ponzi scheme (the one where a con-man gives Investor #2 some of Investor #1's money as a convincer and keeps going down the blockchain line doing that until the scheme is established as a sure-fire winner).
They couldn't possibly be right, could they? Nah! It's all about as kosher as it gets. <wondering-what-that-very-loud-popping-noise-in-the background-is-emoji="">
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Bitcoin may fall hard but Ponzi scheme would be a misnomer. Ponzi means a complicated design of (sort of) getting paid more than once. Not really the case here.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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A basic Ponzi scheme is not really all that elaborate, it simply involves paying off early investors with the funds invested by newer investors - that is to say the first tranche get paid from the investments of the second and they in turn get paid by the third and so forth until there comes an inevitable point where there is no subsequent tranche of investors to pay the previous one and the final investors lose their entire stack.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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A scheme implies a fraudulent design. Of course the monstrous rise in in Bitcoin valuation is crazy, but it could hardly have been foreseen form the outset even from its early owners, and most early owners got rid of them without any profit. IMHO Bitcoin is much more like the infamous Dutch Tulip Craze than a Ponzi scheme.
Tulip mania - Wikipedia
[EDIT:] by "complicated design" above I meant the designs to hide the fact that it is a pyramid. Like Bernie Eckhoff et cohortes.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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PeejayAdams wrote: ...paying off early investors with the funds invested by newer investors
Just like our Social Security system!
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Pom Pey wrote: anyone know what I can spend my $118 on?
Illegal goods on the dark web?
Last I read, you still could not buy a cheeseburger with $1,000,000 of bitcoin, so, it is pretty much useless to you now. 
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Just save them.
Inside a pyramid, so they will stay fresh forever.
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VOLATILITY
Oh, is this not a CCC? 
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Tulip bulbs?
.com companies circa 2000?
Bubble gum?
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Prolly somthing like that, yes. Question is how many magnitudes are left before the bubble goes? Several magnitues ago everyone thought the last magnitude had been reached. And what does "bubble goes" even mean in this case? 50% 90% 99% down?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Hey! You stole my joke on LinkedIn which I bought from someone on Twatter yesterday! I paid B3.5 B4.7 B2.6 for it.
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Fall down into a depression (8)
(Kind if hoping someone gets this sooner rather than later - I got my days mixed up and have to be off mid-morning! How did it get to be Thursday already?!)
{edit] added the indefinite article, as it may help.... come on , you've got one hour left, is all...
modified 14-Dec-17 5:43am.
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Yay - we have a winner! 
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But do we have an explanation?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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