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CRYPTO INSIDER: Bitcoin is more like the flu than you think

Group Leader, Dr Masafumi Inoue of Agency for Science Technology and Research's (A*STAR) Experimental Therapeutics Centre holds up a sample to be tested with the Zika virus diagnostic test kit at their laboratory in Singapore, February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar SuThomson Reuters

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Barclays ran an epidemiological model comparing a theoretical speculative asset to bitcoin. You can probably guess what happened next. The bank concluded that the spread of bitcoin mania has “clear parallels with compartmental models of the spread of an infectious disease in epidemiology.” Ouch.

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