I was there 3000 years ago during the initial kickstarter and got taken in by the grift for the $5 starter ship.
:ohnoes:
At least I knew bitcoin was a scam from the start but then I’d be fuckoff rich if I’d mined a couple coins when I learned about it extremely early on :agony-minion:
I grew up with a guy who started buying it when it was $20. He went full crypto fash and started ranting on FB about how he couldn’t find a trad wife who agreed with him that feminism was a disease.
The decentralized nature of the ponzi scheme’s upstream probably went under the radar of a lot of people’s ponzi detectors.
Then you have a lot of morons going on endlessly saying thinly veiled versions of “how is it a ponzi scheme if I benefited financially from getting in early?”