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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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What's happening:
- A $675 million deal to buy New York City's legendary Plaza Hotel using cryptocurrency is falling apart
- Only 9.2% of millennials said they would buy cryptocurrencies if they had $10,000 to invest
- Crypto is facing 4 huge hurdles before it can be truly mainstream
- If your computer has slowed down, you might be mining crypto coins for someone else — here's how to stop it
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