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William Deringer’s interview for Ars Technica: Is Bitcoin a bubble? Here’s what two bubble experts told us
Dec 11, 2017
Is Bitcoin a bubble? Here’s what two bubble experts told us
“The tulip bubble was a technology bubble,” a scholar told Ars.
Is Bitcoin a bubble? It’s a natural question to ask—especially after Bitcoin’s price shot up from $12,000 to $15,000 this week.
So we decided to ask a couple of experts on bubbles what they thought: Brent Goldfarb is a business professor at the University of Maryland, and William Deringer is a historian at MIT. Both have doneresearch on the history and economics of bubbles, and they talked to Ars by phone this week as Bitcoin continues its surge.
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