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Bonus: The Crypto Story by Matt Levine - Part 5

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Can You Make Up Cryptocurrencies?

Bitcoin's founder says you can make up an arbitrary token that trades electronically and people might pay you money for it. "There's absolutely no reason for sharecoin to be worth anything at all," he writes. A couple of algorithmic stablecoins have Death Spiral, which is when companies issue debt and commit to paying it back with stock.

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