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The unusual risks of investing in the Winklevoss bitcoin ETF

4 pointsby pldpldalmost 12 years ago

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musicaldopealmost 12 years ago
&quot;We’ve heard plenty about activist shareholders, but a bitcoin activist would take the concept to a whole new level. Essentially, some investor or coalition of computers could potentially amass a collection of bitcoins so large that it could change the source code bitcoin uses to operate. This would render the whole currency pretty much useless overnight.&quot;<p>Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. And this article seemed like it was going somewhere...