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No. 11 of 93 worst aged · Financial Times · January 16, 2014

“Beware the mania for Bitcoin, the tulip of the 21st century”

Financial Times headline: Beware the mania for Bitcoin, the tulip of the 21st century

Bitcoin that day

$817

Bitcoin on Oct 3, 2026

$84,972

Bitcoin since

+10,306%

The currency is at present attractive tax evasion and money laundering. This will not last.

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