I am surely not the only person experiencing a fair bit of cryptofreude -- pleasure in watching the Bitcoin etc bubble deflate. Bitcoin cultists tend, after all, to be nasty as well as crazy; not all of them, but surely above the average 1/
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But one thing people may wonder is, why aren't we having a simple Wile E. Coyote moment (Wile E. Cryptocoyote?)? As we know from the laws of cartoon physics, someone who runs off a cliff is supposed to plunge as soon as he notices there's nothing under his feet 2/
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What we see instead is a series of plunges followed by partial recoveries 3/pic.twitter.com/aWY0URpc9w
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It's worth noting, then, that you saw the same thing (in much slower motion) as the dotcom bubble burst way back when 4/pic.twitter.com/lYODFoqtzq
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Back then there was a reserve of true believers who kept buying the dips, sure that the market would eventually regain its faith in techno-magic. Some of the same thing presumably happening now. Plus there are probably market manipulators now, trying to support things 5/
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The point is that even though bubbles are, in effect, natural Ponzi phenomena, they don't end as cleanly and suddenly as deliberate Ponzi schemes. To realize the full joy of cryptofreude, you need to be a bit patient 6/
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anyone who lives long enough would be right about calling the Universe a Bubble that would eventually collapse. to realize the pure joy of Krugmanfreude, you just need to see Krugman squirm year after year after year as #cryptoassets adoption curve exponentially grows 
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