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Bitcoin, (unprofitable) billion dollar stocks and other madness

Do you realise that $10,000 invested in Bitcoin 5 years ago would be worth over $1.1 million today? Makes you think, right?With lockdowns occurring almost everywhere around the world, no one is travelling and AirBNB’s business has been decimated. Yet, its share price has risen by more than 40% over the past year, and it is currently worth nearly $160 billion. That is $10 billion more than Australia’s most valuable company, CBA. Oh, by the way, AirBNB lost $5.8bn in the 2020 fiscal year. In fact, it’s never reported a profit after tax. By comparison, CBA makes nearly $10 billion profit per…

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