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No. 84 of 93 worst aged · Barron's · January 13, 2022

“Bitcoin Is Facing an Existential Crisis”

Barron's headline: Bitcoin Is Facing an Existential Crisis

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If Bitcoin doesn’t act as a hedge after all, then what is it? At the moment it’s behaving like just another tech stock. It is facing an existential crisis.

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