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The event is akin to a silent disco for readers.

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This is akin to attributing a ship’s safe passage through rough seas to the first mate, not the captain.

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The committee described crypto as “a speculative and increasingly popular asset class that many investors, but not all, will seek to explore” — comparing bitcoin, specifically, to a scarce asset “akin to digital gold.”

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Campaigners argued that Mr Coskun's conviction was akin to blasphemy laws being reintroduced "by the back door, inadvertently, by our court service".

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Still, they acknowledge this isn’t fringe science akin to widely refuted claims that vaccines are linked to autism.

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