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		huehehue on Sept 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: China Bans Bitcoin Executives from Leaving Country... Trends have been more or less identical for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin over the past month or so. The following picture only spans a week, but it shows the exact same rise and fall in prices for all 3 -- https://i.imgur.com/GjsCMUZ.png. Trying to fit models to that picture (or the other way around) seems like trouble, but it stuck out as interesting.

Heliosmaster on Sept 20, 2017 [–]

I think that when bitcoin takes a hit it propagates to all other cryptocurrencies, since BTCs are often seen as an archetype of all cryptomoney.

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