• fishy
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    4 days ago

    I had an acquaintance ask me about my opinion on crypto a few years ago and I explained it only has the perceived value and is highly volatile as a result, and that all but a few coins were basically rug pulls waiting to happen. He was satisfied with that and moved on. About a year later crypto had roughly doubled in value and he gave me shit about bad advice (it was an opinion not investment advice) and proceeded to move $10k into some coin I’d never heard of. About a month later a mutual friend said the other guy had lost like $8k of his $10k investment. Next time I saw the acquaintance there was no mention of crypto.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah, it’s like those people who fall for ads where people get rich going to the casino.

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        3 days ago

        LOL they love to parade around the 1/10,000 winners and make them spokespeople for the casino for a week.

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          2 days ago

          It is the way all lottery works.

          You are more likely to be hit by lightning than to win the lottery. Yet people believe they will win every time.

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      3 days ago

      i notice that is usually conservatives that buys into the scam, and the ones that peddle it too.

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      3 days ago

      (it was an opinion not investment advice)

      If you did give them advice, would it be different?

      some coin I’d never heard of

      The problem is this person was looking at the market as a whole and then investing in some niche coin. At this point any coin that’s not well-established is mostly likely pure grift.

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              3 days ago

              There are definitely elements of this administration that want to see their particular shitcoin approved. We’ll see. It was quite the epic legal battle to even get bitcoin through that door. The SEC has rules for financial fundamentals that bitcoin legitimately met, which other coins would have a much harder time proving. But, this is the anything goes administration…

              edit - See other user’s comment noting that actually Etherium was also approved for use as a security last year.