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Tech billionaire and Shark Tank personality Mark Cuban launched a savage takedown of bitcoin in a Wired video this weekend. He reeled off a list of well-trodden criticisms of the cryptocurrency, comparing it to baseball cards and slamming its ‘lack of intrinsic value.’ In a truly bizarre statement, he said he’d rather own bananas than bitcoin. Last time I checked, bananas weren’t the best-performing asset of the decade. Billionaire Mark Cuban: Bitcoin has ‘no intrinsic value’ Cuban began...

Earlier this year, Kevin O’Leary said that Bitcoin is “useless,” just the latest in a series of attacks launched at the suddenly-resurgent cryptocurrency. At one point, the “Shark Tank”  investor said that Bitcoin has no real value because governments won’t let him pay taxes with it. Now, people on social media have surfaced a six-year-old video of O’Leary defending Bitcoin on Canadian news channel CBC. Kevin O’Leary in 2013: Bitcoin Is “Here To Stay” Whether or not a currency is...