Bitcoin and Ethereum are not companies or stocks or a plant bulb. They are value protocols on the Internet.
They currently resemble commodities more than any other asset but in reality they are an entirely new asset class.
We love comparing new things to old to try and define and make sense of them.
https://hackernoon.com/why-everyone-...s-c90b0151c169
Great read above about the computer science breakthrough that Bitcoin provided: Triple Entry Accounting
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