We love you, Bitcoin, but you're boring

CNBC is saying that Bitcoin is boring and that maybe that's not such a bad thing. Anytime stuffy institutional investors decide something is safe enough to hold in their portfolios, you can bet the edgier, more impulsive retail investors are moving on to other assets. Let's face it; Bitcoin is about as exciting in the crypto market as General Motors is in the stock market. GM stock price is where it was five years ago, and Bitcoin has been dancing around the $20,000 mark for five months. And eve
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