I’m guessing it was a rogue employee. The cable company already has the subscribers’ money. They have no motive to do anything risky unless it increases their subscriber base.

Sure, lots of symptoms after the damage is done.

You don’t actually feel things like high blood pressure or diabetes, until it’s too late.

Dude, there’s a sketchy white van parked in front of my house RIGHT NOW! Do you think it’s them?!!

Yes you do.

Um, Yoda Episode V?

Personally, I think they beat the opera out of it pretty thoroughly.  The characters were wooden.

I am very surprised that Inova did this. Inova is not a fly-by-night startup. It is a large nonprofit health care system in the Washington, DC area.

If its that close, then they both had them in the development pipeline at the same time.

Samsung’s last phone before the iPhone:

Lowest bar ever for “benefit to humanity.” Samsung fanboy says “Let them eat cake.”

Why would a high price reduce volatility?

Yeah, crumbling 3rd world economies and a recently conquered Germany under reparations. Is that Bitcoin’s peer group?

“Worth more than anyone thought possible” is great if you are buying a company.  But it’s supposed to be a currency.  A rapidly appreciating or depreciating currency is a terrible currency.

If you think this is a winning strategy, you have not lived long enough.

The dollar has not even come close to this.  Not by a longshot.

Bitcoin transaction costs are about as reliable as its daily price.

If an economy ran on bitcoin, it would have experienced 276% inflation in 2018, due to currency devaluation alone.

Sounds like an ad hominem attack.  

If you own stock, you own a percentage of a company with assets, revenues, and cash flows.