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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. That would be like Turkey’s voting to have Thanksgiving dinner. This is where I see cryptocurrencies today. This sounds to me like fraud, pure and simple.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005).

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