During covid, a mate of mine wanted to buy bitcoin but he didn't know where to start. He said he wanted to buy some, store it away and forget about it.
"Wise move!" I told him and whenever he was ready to go ahead with it, let me know and I'll help him buy it and store it.
He never contacted me in the end and I headed off to Mexico to avoid another lockdown so hadn't seen him since.
I've just met up with him and he told me he ended up buying into some shitcoin with £00,000s of fiat which ended up going to zero. I asked him what it was called and he couldn't even remember the name.
WTF! I know he deserves it but how can you start out with a sensible plan and end up buying into some 'next bitcoin' scammy shitcoin and losing it all.
People, man...
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The NGMI out there is heavy
I have a friend who’s a lawyer and seems smart by all accounts.
He debated me on why we need a managed monetary system and why hard money is bad for innovation for a week, then finally asked me for some bitcoin resources.
I learned a few months later that he bought some sort of index of cryptocurrencies and it wasn’t doing so well. When I asked if it contained any bitcoin allocation, he said “I have no clue”.
💀
Where in MC did you go?
seemingly smart ≠ smart
Man i know the feeling
Not too many but i know a few that die shit like that
I also have one that asked me if it was a good idea the make some "yield" on blockfi, the did it anyway, used how cool it is and in the end cried that it can't be that they ruged him and that the government should give some protection!
RIP
He ia completely back in fiat and I'm sure he'll come back crying during the bull market, saying that it wasn't "predictable" (I told him a lot of times that it'll go up, as "bdw it'll go up forever Laura" cit Saylor)
True
Oof. That's a typical example of knowing just enough to be dangerous. "I know, I'll buy an index of coins like the S&P to derisk"
Stayed in Playa del Carmen and Tulum for the (European) winter. A short walk from the Caribbean Sea
Nice.
2021 or 2022?
Probably bumped into each other!
I’m thinking one of his pro-crypto friends got to him and convinced him there’s more value outside of bitcoin but then they couldn’t really name anything specific and told him just to get a basket of a bunch in case one moons.
I was there from Sep 2021 to March 2022. Were you in Playa?
Yup!
The Gallery building.
Moved there in October 2021!
Went to some of the crypto meetups as well.
Yep, I suspect so too. I'm seeing him again next week so will ask who conned him.
Nice. I just went to the beach most days. Might go to Asia somewhere this winter
Yup.
I hit the sports track and then the gym.
Got empanadas across from the track all the time.
Sooo good.
