• fishy@lemmy.today
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    5 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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      5 days ago

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

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      4 days ago

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