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Professor Nouriel Roubini shares his views on bitcoin

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Excerpt from Financial News -- "Roubini, the famously bearish NYU economist, who earned the nickname ‘Dr Doom’ for predicting the financial crisis, said: 'For bitcoin to be a currency it has to be a unit of account, a means of payment, and a stable store of value. It is none of these. Bitcoin is not even accepted at Bitcoin conferences, and how can something that falls 20% one day and then rises 20% the next be a stable store of value.'"

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