There's a lot to learn about bitcoin from looking at the tulip bulb bubble

Tulipmania gripped the Netherlands in the 1600s as the price of tulip bulbs skyrocketed.
Bitcoin has been compared to tulipmania.
When the tulip bubble collapsed, much of the Dutch economy was unaffected, which is likely the case if bitcoin ever collapses, according to Capital Economics.
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Tulipmania is a famous period in the 1600s when the Netherlands was enraptured by tulip bulbs, sending their prices sky high before collapsi