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Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams
(gizmodo.com)
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this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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Maybe a hot take, but those currently into crypto and Musk aren't that bright.
That is the coldest take I've ever heard.
Yep - It was found in the frozen food section
Tossed it in the microwave and here we are
Speak for yourself. Personally I turned $12K into $36K when the US government allowed bitcoin to be traded on the stock market as an ETF. Yet everyone here keeps trying to tell me that it's a scam. Which is weird, because I bought a car, an OLED TV, and built a $4000 gaming machine with my "fake internet money", as everyone here likes to call it.
All this stuff I bought with my earnings seems real to me. But hey, keep downvoting and calling me an idiot, like you always do, when I bring up the point that not everyone is stupid enough to lose money with crypto.
Okay, hypothetically let's imagine someone who is a Bitcoin trading god. Every peak he's there unloading his bags, every dip and he's buying hundreds of Bitcoins. This guy turns thousands into millions and millions into billions. Huge success story right?
But here's the rub, where is all this money coming from? The money isn't coming out of thin air, it's not coming from the crypto exchanges, otherwise they'd go bankrupt, it's not coming from the value of any goods or services produced. The answer is that all that money is coming from other people. Someone has to be buying at the peak thinking it'll go "To the moon" and getting burned, or maybe the need to pay off some hackers cryptolocker. The same for the dip maybe someone needs real money right now and must sell despite the loss, or maybe someone is panic selling thinking the price will go lower. Our hypothetical trading god hasn't really created any money or anything of value at all, they've just moved money from the losers in the Bitcoin to his own wallet.
This makes you the equivalent to one of the spokespeople from near the top of a pyramid scheme taking about how this is one of the legit pyramid schemes, because you've earned so much money! Ignoring of course that all of their money means that someone somewhere needed to lose that money first.
However, I suppose at the end of the day, you did take twenty four thousand dollars from crypto morons, so I suppose that's kinda noble in a way.