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		xenihn on Dec 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to ... That isn't true, it depends on the whims of the people who determine what those optimists say and write.

wpietri on Dec 27, 2018 [–]

I am pretty clearly offering an opinion here, so I'm not asserting that it's true. But the naive optimists I'm speaking of here were the greater fools [1] who bought Bitcoin as it was rising. Journalists are generally cynics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

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