CRYPTO INSIDER: Bitcoin is more like the flu than you think

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Barclays ran an epidemiological model comparing a theoretical speculative asset to bitcoin. You can probably guess what happened next. The bank concluded that the spread of bitcoin mania has "clear parallels with compartmental models of the spread of an infectious disease in epidemiology." Ouch.

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