Finally, a way to speculate on banana futures!
— the grugq (@thegrugq) January 20, 2018
(Friend sent me this from a crypto currency conference.) pic.twitter.com/vlCYKtuhO6
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7:08 am Sat
Jan 20, 2018
Just look at this banana-futures-speculation cryptocurrency
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