Cybersecurity
Left for Dead, Bitcoin Went on a Tear and Sparked a New Mania
- Bitcoin’s surge doubles price in the wake of 2018 collapse
- Advocates don’t seem to mind that rally is hard to explain
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The Bitcoin bulls came back. Literally.
Little Dude, a real-life bovine housed in a make-shift pen in a Manhattan ballroom, greeted crypto enthusiasts at the Magical Crypto Conference last weekend. He was brought by the anonymous Bitcoin Sign Guy, who offered 21 “Buy Bitcoin” replicas -- pen on yellow legal-pad paper -- for roughly $8,000 a pop. Only six were left at the end of the week.