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2023-02-21 11:30:47

Why The Creator Of World Wide Web Thinks Crypto Is A Form Of Gambling

Why The Creator Of World Wide Web Thinks Crypto Is A Form Of Gambling

Tim Berners-Lee, the architect of the World Wide Web (WWW), stated that digital currencies are “just speculative” and compared them to the “dot-com” bubble, during which internet stocks were often overvalued without a sound business strategy to back them. But, the British computer scientist used stronger words to describe crypto: “Dangerous” and a form of “gambling.”

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