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Bitcoin’s Price Chaos Demonstrates the Importance of Sophisticated Financial Products
Between January 1 and December 17, 2017, the value of a single Bitcoin skyrocketed from under $1,000 to nearly $20,000. To match Bitcoin’s 1183 percent return during this period, an investor would have needed the equivalent of 38 years’ average …