Bitcoin maximalist Max Keiser wrote an article for the Huffington Post in 2013 entitled: "What If All the Bitcoin Exchanges in the World Were Shut Down?" and now that many “Crypto” exchanges are shutting down, seems more relevant than ever.

"With this added layer of price discovery in the bitcoin's existence as a currency, the possibility of scaling up to the multi-hundred billion valuations necessary to get it on the first rung of the global currency market becomes a possibility. Without it, we're talking about beaver pelts."

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