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"Most talked about in history"? Needs citation... And the hyperbole is constant through the midpoint of the article, where I stopped reading.

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It's a hackernoon opinion blog post, not the New York Times. And you don't need a citation for something that is clearly meant to be hyperbole.

[Citation needed] has gone from a notation about checking facts to a trendy response whenever someone doesn't like something they read in a blog post or comment.

I don’t think that hyperbole, “clearly” intentional or not, should be given a free pass by readers simply because it’s an opinion piece.

I also found the tone of the article a bit off, and it has nothing to do with whether I agree or disagree with any of it.

If the author is going to make such extraordinary claims, I expect to see some research to back it up. There are plenty of metrics: google trends, headline count, tweet count etc. Since he hasn't done the legwork, and the claim rings false, I'm calling him out.

It's not hyperbole. People are completely under-reacting. If Libra succeeds, it could completely change things for the worse. It has a good chance of succeeding once governments understand that it impedes real cryptocurrencies.

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