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Early this month, I made this very important announcement on Twitter: Value Research to stop researching mutual funds and stocks and will focus only on analysing cryptocurrencies. In case that leaves our research team with too much time on their hands, we will add horse racing to the types of investments we cover. Of course, by 'early this month', I mean April 1. That should have made the true meaning of the tweet clear to everyone, but it didn't. In any case, there were a lot of responses from people who follow me, as well as some from those who don't. There were responses on Twitter, as well as some private ones. When I had initially written out the tweet, I had hardly given it much thought - my goal was nothing but to provoke a few chuckles amongst my Twitter audience and move on. However, the replies and QTs that the tweet collected were quite thought-provoking and have made me think hard on a couple of things. Broadly, there were three kinds of responses: 1. Those who got the j