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gphil on April 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Bitcoin Becoming More Stable Than Gold?

Interestingly, the all-time Bitcoin price graph looks a lot like the Gartner Hype Cycle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

Whether or not this really is a "plateau of productivity" remains to be seen however.

riprowan on April 22, 2016 | [–]

It looks to me more like the Hunt Brothers' attempts to corner the silver market from 1970-1980, and the fallout thereafter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday#/media/File:Si...

nosuchthing on April 19, 2016 | | [–]

Analysis of recent trends dictate the future: http://i.imgur.com/nmQEY.jpg

anonymfus on April 19, 2016 | | [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_response

bduerst on April 19, 2016 | [–]

Pure coincidence.

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