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Bitcoin: Deja Vu?
Don't expect sudden falls to deter this form of gambling.
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A dramatic, unexplained 1,000 percent boom. Then a 50 percent collapse in weeks.
Not Bitcoin in early 2018, but at the end of 2013 and start of 2014. We have been here before. Some things have changed since -- not least the ability to profit from the declines -- but the same lessons still need to be learned: the crypto-currency remains a very risky bet.