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.
Know another guy who put an .eth on the end of his Steam handle and had some NFTs that were going for like 80k at their peak and was talked into hodling.
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?”