# Professor Aswath Damodaran's blog post on cryptocurrency is referenced

1 Faculty News September 15, 2017 ![TheStreet logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/thestreet.jpg?itok=2XiyrQ8_)>

Excerpt from [TheStreet.com](http://realmoney.thestreet.com/articles/09/15/2017/what-makes-bitcoin-so-tough-value-and-why-selloff-could-be-store) -- "...NYU finance professor [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran) suggests that unless Bitcoin becomes widely used to conduct transactions, it's just 'a lucrative, but dangerous, pricing game with no good ending.'"

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