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CRYPTO INSIDER: Bitcoin is more like the flu than you think

Barclays found "clear parallels" between a theoretical model of a speculative asset and the crypto craze.

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Barclays ran an epidemiological model comparing a theoretical speculative asset to bitcoin. You can probably guess what happened next. The bank concluded that the spread of bitcoin mania has "

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