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“Adding bitcoin, and more generally, a diversified basket of cryptocurrencies, to the investible universe of broad portfolios may be beneficial”
Artur Sepp, Signum Bank
“People who bought these in late 2021 did the most unbelievably perfect trade you could imagine”
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There are elements that have to be in place for competition to work properly. In retail trading, I’m not sure those elements are in place
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