"IT'S A NEW REVOLUTION I TELL YA!"
"BLIPCOINS TO $100,000, then 1 MILLION!"
A few "get rich quick" morons out there actually took out home equity loans to buy into blipcoin mania. Those people are busted today.
Pure idiocy.
Remember... no matter what stories they tell ya... It's NEVER "different this time". Ponzi manias always end badly.
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Bitcoin Mining Rig-Maker Holds 'Fire-Sale' After Hash-Rate Collapses Again
Despite the collapse of the cryptocurrency market in 2018, the Bitcoin mining hash rate has positively diverged for most of the year.
However, as we first reported on Nov. 20, a turning point developed from Aug. 27 to Nov. 01 that would ultimately reverse the direction of the hash rate and sparked crypto fears that Bitcoin mining has become unprofitable for many.
According to Autonomous Research LLP. Fundstrat Global Advisors LLC., there is consolidation among miners that perform complex calculations to generate the digital currency after the recent plunge rendered many of them unprofitable. Fundstrat notes that 100,000 individual miners have been shut down in the last several months as mining operations go bust.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-04/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-just-collapsed-again-second-largest-drop-history