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> For hacker news I expect people to be a lot smarter but apparently no one in the entire thread realized I said Tulipmania. Not Tulips.

Yes, and then you went and compared the tulip mania against the entire history of Bitcoin. The current orgy of speculation and people taking out mortgages to buy Bitcoin is a recent phenomenon.

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This is like me talking about dollars and you go "paper has existed for much longer than dollars".

This is why I (almost) never comment online. Too many idiots posing as experts.

Would you please stop breaking the HN guidelines? If you want to comment here you need to do so more thoughtfully.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If people are being stupid I'm gonna call them stupid.

Ok, since you don't seem to want to use the site as intended, I've banned the account. If you change your mind you're welcome to let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.

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