# Professor David Yermack comments on the risk associated with investing in bitcoin

1 Faculty News November 30, 2017 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](https://www.marketplace.org/2017/11/30/economy/trade-bitcoin-your-own-risk) -- "I think people who own these things have a certain appetite for risk...What you're talking about with digital currencies is much more idiosyncratic risk which is unique to the asset but not tied to the overall economy."

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