Cryptocurrency

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I think that like each year, the odds have gone down substantially that it's going to go away. If you rewine to march 20 20, i think there is a real risk of that umpiquain drop down to 35 hundred dollars per token. The amount of institutional capital getting involved in crypto is massively higher. And all that just means that there's just a lot more there. It's at this point, crypto is too big for people to just go out and ban it. In mass yuno, major governments, least not many of them,. hard bann crypto aint as likly in china, china, band crypto mining, correct? China, band crypto

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