It happened again. Met this guy online in 2021. He came in as a shitcoiner. I helped him see the light with bitcoin. During the bear market he was working insta cart in order to stack like crazy. After a few years of hard work he had amassed 2-3 bitcoin. Was super proud of this guy. He was on his way to changing his family tree. Then he fell for some runes meme token. Put his whole stack in. Even became leader of their meme coin army. Is now promoting this scam token and promising returns to others. He’s already down significantly in bitcoin terms. Most likely scenario is that everyone involved with this thing is going to zero. SAD. Another one bites the dust. image

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How do you even find out about these things? I suspect people I've orange pilled in the past have gone full retard altcoin, but I can never tell, because it's not like they come back around to me and tell me that they've lost all their money, or worse, that they're pumping something else.
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Jonathan 1 year ago
Wisdom and understanding are even more precious than bitcoin.
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HoloKat 1 year ago
I’ve done this in 2017, gambling on shitcoins hoping to “10x” my stack 🤣 It was a tough lesson… one I don’t want to think about anymore. I have yet to rebuild the stack I lost … 😞
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Pan Hodl 1 year ago
oh man... without lowering time preference, it's so hard to hodl Bitcoin while seeing shitcoins getting pump for a few weeks. I got a theory that human doesn't like peaceful life. They want actions. Bitcoin most of the time cannot give them constant adrenaline..... feel sad for the guy 😭
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rand0mguest2 1 year ago
I have a friend that stacked 7 btc and he started in 2021. Not everyone buys $10 at a time like on bt
Some of the hardest tuition fees are not only self-induced by greed, but also ones in which you “help others see the light” & encourage them to invest alongside you in the next big thing This story ends painfully. Will they have the heart to admit fault? Time will tell
And then there are people like me who see your post about this and are encouraged to continue stacking sats rather than playing in the casino.
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Lucid 1 year ago
Bro I'm all in and I'm no where near that. Guess I just don't produce much financial value after taking care of my immediate and extended family
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Knic 1 year ago
The lesson of this story is instacart pays really well
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at least it will be a good cocktail party story about how your ex protige has become the leader of a shitcoin cult image
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So he did not understand bitcoin. And he did not understand RAROC - Risk Adjusted return of Capital. I already knew what that meant but you drove that home with me with Bitcoin. There is NOTHING that comes even remotely close to bitcoin in terms of RAROC. Bitcoin is actually extremely low risk with extremely high reward. People confuse low risk with volatility. There are not the same. Bitcoin is extremely low risk but extremely highly volatile. Example : Nvidia outperformed bitcoin on 5Y but I would buy bitcoin before NVIDIA every time when adjusting for RISK and the value of portability of bitcoin. It's extreme stupidity to trade bitcoin for runes.
I’m not defending it, but is there any chance he’s shilling the shitcoin to increase his own Bitcoin stack? I have this feeling that’s what many of the shitcoins throughout history have been.
Pretty much all. Hell, back in the early days 2015-2017, most of these only took BTC in exchange for their ICOs and then had Bitcoin reserves strategies in their whitepapers.
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Swanny 1 year ago
Stay humble, stack sats. Don’t get runed
Totally fair question. I would say this is : 1) naive at best and more likely just unethical 2) historical data says unlikely to work. So whether you want to speak on pure virtue or just likelihood of Bitcoin stacking success, it’s probably bad either way from what I’ve seen.
Have a young friend who played with crypto in his early twenties. Got smart and consolidated everything into bitcoin. Then got married and sold most of his stack to buy a house. Now with wife and kids he isn’t “into buying low and selling high”, in which he’s totally missed the point of never selling his stack. Low time preference gets you a less than ideal result.
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Josef Tětek 1 year ago
Everybody gets what they deserve. No remorse for people like this.
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Knic 1 year ago
Do your own research