Toro Boro

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In order to beat back the boredom invoked by this so-called “market” of ours, I have YouTube on quite regularly, playing music of one kind or another. I have noticed that lately I have been inundated with ads from eToro, featuring a getting-really-old Alec Baldwin touting the benefits of depositing money into a cryptocurrency trading account.

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As you might guess, he trots out his Glengarry persona (from thirty freakin’ years ago) to chastise you for not investing in Bitcoin. Because, hey, who wouldn’t want a piece of this hot, hot action in which, if you had the foresight to invest back around Thanksgiving of 2017, you’d have made $zero by now. Shame on you.

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I glanced at the eToro site, and evidently their big feature – – – which they call “revolutionary” even though trade-copying features have been around for many, many years – – is that you can basically mimic all the trades of anyone else.

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So let me get this straight………….you get a bunch of small traders who give their permission to push into cryptocurrencies a few moments after the top guy on the board does?

What a fantastic position of power for that guy to be in? If you look up “front-running” in the dictionary, surely there must have an image of CopyTrader, because that’s precisely what is going on. Good Lord! A guy places a trade, and bang, a bunch of other people automatically pile into the same market? That’s gotta be good for his purchase, right?

Anyway, this one chap ripped the ad apart, piece by piece:

So this crazy startup must be two guys in a garage, right? Nope. In this age of malinvestment, these folks have secured nearly a quarter billion dollars in funding.

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It’s all quite strange to me, because cryptocurrencies are about as hot and relevant today as 3D Printing. It’s basically the fad that refuses to die.