3. More Than Just a Coin
The Missing Cryptoqueen
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The End Is Nigh, but It's Not Just About Making Money, Its About Changing the World
Professor eileen barker is an expert on how and why people come to believe in things that others would consider completely irrational. She's spent her life examining moonies, doomsday colts and the millinarianists who believe that the world will end on a certain day but then carry on regardless when it doesn't. And she found some interesting similarities between what she studied and one coin,. People just keep investing. It seems like a strange type of irrationality. They've invested, they've invested as they're expecting a return. So they're stupid not to hang around till they get the return. I mean, you've got to believe it. A s consistency theory. The psychologists
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