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FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency with Robert Hockett

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Cryptocurrency and the Initial Technology

People tend to forget that the overwhelmingly greater part of the invested money during the fad phase of a new investment product ends up being lost. It's only a relatively small number of folks who actually benefit by it i think the same thing then happened of course with the subprime mortgage related products when these were brand new. As always happens so much money crowded into this new technology essentially mortgage lending technology and so many rascals were invited to enter into the market essentially to offer a crap alongside the non-crap. The crap ultimately came to outweigh and outsize thenon-crap and now we're right back to that pyramid structure you always need more people coming in now than we

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