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Mark Cuban pointed out several risks and downsides to bitcoin

"Not because it can't work technically," the Shark Tank star and owner of the Dallas Mavericks."But rather because it's too difficult to use, too easy to hack, way too easy to lose, too hard to understand, too hard to assess a value."

Given the raft of rival cryptocurrencies available, Cuban said, it's also"too much work for people to know why BTC over everything else."by building Broadcast.com — a pioneer in video-streaming technology — then selling it to Yahoo! in a $5.7 billion stock deal in 1999., arguing the cryptocurrency has no intrinsic value and is"only worth what somebody will pay for it." He added that he'd"rather have bananas, I can eat bananas.

The price of bitcoin has plunged from about $12,000 in August to below $7,250 at the time of writing.

 

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Not long ago he had the opposite view I'm assuming he has a friend with a short position? Not pumping he's dumping...?

Makes some valid points

Any upsides yet ?

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