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No. 66 of 93 worst aged · CNBC · January 10, 2018

“Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global currency”

CNBC headline: Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global currency

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view them as just speculative tokens in a cryptocurrency bubble that has inflated more quickly than any other in financial market history.

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