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No bad takes on record β yet. We're keeping score.

β(...) Bitcoin is dead.β
β Rafi Farber
$61,322at the time

β#Bitcoin is the #BeanieBabies of the modern era. Good luck!β
β James Woods
$15,379at the time

βBitcoin is a HIGHLY SPECULATIVE asset fueled by HYPE. It's a bubble waiting to pop.β
β Steve Hanke
$47,675at the time

β(...) Therefore Bitcoin must collapse.β
β Kevin Dowd
$338at the time

βSo it turns out that Bitcoin is just another bubble asset that blows up when the Fed gets serious about hiking interest rates. Zero store of value function. Zero diversification benefit. Zero yield. Sayonara Bitcoin...β
β Robin Brooks
$24,760at the time

βThere can be little doubt that Bitcoin is madness.β
β Josh Williams
$35,671at the time

βIf we now say ok, bitcoins. What about platinum? What about coal? Why donβt we hold strategic beef reserves, or mutton reserves, or apple reserves? Why Bitcoin?β
β Lesetja Kganyago
$105,559at the time

βRather have bananas than bitcoin. I could eat bananas β crypto, not so much.β
β Mark Cuban
$8,205at the time

βThe idea that desperately poor people with limited access to basic necessities will have the technology and the expertise (or need) to use bitcoin is laughable. It is delusional to believe that Bitcoin will be saved by people without access to running water. The people of the Third World have bigger concerns than a decentralised peer-to-peer electronic currency.β
β Robert Nielsen
$217at the time

βThank you so much for calling all this bitcoin nonsense exactly what it is β a scam.β
β John Q. Public
$624at the time

βBitcoin is Evil.β
β Paul Krugman
$728at the time

βBitcoin to Die - its unavoidable. The death of crypto and the blockchain.β
β Arduino Tronic
$226at the time

β(...) Bitcoin is dead.β
β Rafi Farber
$61,322at the time

β#Bitcoin is the #BeanieBabies of the modern era. Good luck!β
β James Woods
$15,379at the time

βBitcoin is a HIGHLY SPECULATIVE asset fueled by HYPE. It's a bubble waiting to pop.β
β Steve Hanke
$47,675at the time

β(...) Therefore Bitcoin must collapse.β
β Kevin Dowd
$338at the time

βSo it turns out that Bitcoin is just another bubble asset that blows up when the Fed gets serious about hiking interest rates. Zero store of value function. Zero diversification benefit. Zero yield. Sayonara Bitcoin...β
β Robin Brooks
$24,760at the time

βThere can be little doubt that Bitcoin is madness.β
β Josh Williams
$35,671at the time

βIf we now say ok, bitcoins. What about platinum? What about coal? Why donβt we hold strategic beef reserves, or mutton reserves, or apple reserves? Why Bitcoin?β
β Lesetja Kganyago
$105,559at the time

βRather have bananas than bitcoin. I could eat bananas β crypto, not so much.β
β Mark Cuban
$8,205at the time

βThe idea that desperately poor people with limited access to basic necessities will have the technology and the expertise (or need) to use bitcoin is laughable. It is delusional to believe that Bitcoin will be saved by people without access to running water. The people of the Third World have bigger concerns than a decentralised peer-to-peer electronic currency.β
β Robert Nielsen
$217at the time

βThank you so much for calling all this bitcoin nonsense exactly what it is β a scam.β
β John Q. Public
$624at the time

βBitcoin is Evil.β
β Paul Krugman
$728at the time

βBitcoin to Die - its unavoidable. The death of crypto and the blockchain.β
β Arduino Tronic
$226at the time

β(...) Bitcoin is dead.β
β Rafi Farber
$61,322at the time

β#Bitcoin is the #BeanieBabies of the modern era. Good luck!β
β James Woods
$15,379at the time

βBitcoin is a HIGHLY SPECULATIVE asset fueled by HYPE. It's a bubble waiting to pop.β
β Steve Hanke
$47,675at the time

β(...) Therefore Bitcoin must collapse.β
β Kevin Dowd
$338at the time

βSo it turns out that Bitcoin is just another bubble asset that blows up when the Fed gets serious about hiking interest rates. Zero store of value function. Zero diversification benefit. Zero yield. Sayonara Bitcoin...β
β Robin Brooks
$24,760at the time

βThere can be little doubt that Bitcoin is madness.β
β Josh Williams
$35,671at the time

βIf we now say ok, bitcoins. What about platinum? What about coal? Why donβt we hold strategic beef reserves, or mutton reserves, or apple reserves? Why Bitcoin?β
β Lesetja Kganyago
$105,559at the time

βRather have bananas than bitcoin. I could eat bananas β crypto, not so much.β
β Mark Cuban
$8,205at the time

βThe idea that desperately poor people with limited access to basic necessities will have the technology and the expertise (or need) to use bitcoin is laughable. It is delusional to believe that Bitcoin will be saved by people without access to running water. The people of the Third World have bigger concerns than a decentralised peer-to-peer electronic currency.β
β Robert Nielsen
$217at the time

βThank you so much for calling all this bitcoin nonsense exactly what it is β a scam.β
β John Q. Public
$624at the time

βBitcoin is Evil.β
β Paul Krugman
$728at the time

βBitcoin to Die - its unavoidable. The death of crypto and the blockchain.β
β Arduino Tronic
$226at the time

β(...) Bitcoin is dead.β
β Rafi Farber
$61,322at the time

β#Bitcoin is the #BeanieBabies of the modern era. Good luck!β
β James Woods
$15,379at the time

βBitcoin is a HIGHLY SPECULATIVE asset fueled by HYPE. It's a bubble waiting to pop.β
β Steve Hanke
$47,675at the time

β(...) Therefore Bitcoin must collapse.β
β Kevin Dowd
$338at the time

βSo it turns out that Bitcoin is just another bubble asset that blows up when the Fed gets serious about hiking interest rates. Zero store of value function. Zero diversification benefit. Zero yield. Sayonara Bitcoin...β
β Robin Brooks
$24,760at the time

βThere can be little doubt that Bitcoin is madness.β
β Josh Williams
$35,671at the time

βIf we now say ok, bitcoins. What about platinum? What about coal? Why donβt we hold strategic beef reserves, or mutton reserves, or apple reserves? Why Bitcoin?β
β Lesetja Kganyago
$105,559at the time

βRather have bananas than bitcoin. I could eat bananas β crypto, not so much.β
β Mark Cuban
$8,205at the time

βThe idea that desperately poor people with limited access to basic necessities will have the technology and the expertise (or need) to use bitcoin is laughable. It is delusional to believe that Bitcoin will be saved by people without access to running water. The people of the Third World have bigger concerns than a decentralised peer-to-peer electronic currency.β
β Robert Nielsen
$217at the time

βThank you so much for calling all this bitcoin nonsense exactly what it is β a scam.β
β John Q. Public
$624at the time

βBitcoin is Evil.β
β Paul Krugman
$728at the time

βBitcoin to Die - its unavoidable. The death of crypto and the blockchain.β
β Arduino Tronic
$226at the time
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