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Bitcoin

Bitcoin is the first crypto asset investment. Used as a vehicle for speculation and gambling.

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Bitcoin is not a currency.

Bitcoin is a speculative investment.

Bitcoin is deflationary.

Bitcoin has no fundamental-value.

Bitcoin has no use-value.

Bitcoin has no income-cashflows.

Bitcoin has a present-value of zero.

Bitcoin has a terminal-value of zero.

Bitcoin is a greater-fool-theory asset.

Bitcoin is a form of gambling.

Bitcoin is a non-productive investment.

Bitcoin has a negative expected return.

Bitcoin is a security.

Bitcoin is allegedly a sound money in the Austrian economics school of thought.

Bitcoin is a bubble.

Bitcoin investing is a negative-sum game.

Bitcoin has a narrative economics based on libertarianism, regulatory arbitrage and aspirations of private money.

Bitcoin shares a payout structure similar to a ponzi scheme.

Bitcoin is based on an environmentally destructive consensus algorithm known as Proof of Work mining.