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The Bitcoin Bubble And You

The Bitcoin Bubble And Blockchain Bonanza A Word About Bubbles. What is Blockchain and Should I Care? Picks and Shovels. (Accessed via Yahoo! Finance, 12/12/2017) Heard of Bitcoin lately? Stories of multi-millionaires who bought at $.30/bitcoin are a dime a dozen right now, as FOMO whips the market into a frothy frenzy. Should you get in? I work in the payments industry, facilitating exchange from one currency into another for individuals who need euros/pounds/yen, etc. for the currency or currencies they have in their bank accounts. Day in and day out I watch fluctuation of these currencies in relation to each other, and night after night I do my research around security opportunities for investments. This blend of both worlds gives me a nice platform of knowledge to soapbox a bit about cryptocurrencies (crypto from here on out for brevity). Take that as you will. This article has two simple goals: I want to first establish something...