<div dir="ltr">Tsk, so many bad investments, so little time!<div><br></div><div>Binging Sandy Pentland led me to <a href="http://etoro.com">etoro.com</a>, where everybody can see how everybody's portfolios are doing. The front page gives the top crypto traders on the site, who are all around -70% for the past year. But scroll down and you find out that they range from +27% to +197% for the past two years. </div><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 12:02 PM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Having investments go bad makes me feel prosperous, like going to the dentist. I probably shouldn't have investments.<br>
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I know, right. My Ada's down from $200 to $100! I'm not quite sure how I'm gonna pay the rent. /s<br>
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I saw some post on Mastodon that I can't find now. The person was lamenting FTX and how they knew 2 people personally, one who lost $90k and another who lost something like $10k. And he closed with "neither of which could afford it." Maybe I'm cruel. But my first thought was, why in hell did you have $90k in crypto if you couldn't afford to lose it? I mean, I know there's a sucker born every minute ... but $90k? I could live for at least a couple of years on that. To even have 90k to invest *at all*, anywhere, implies something.<br>
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On 11/16/22 08:44, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br>
> Lol, well I guess I bought the right Proof of Stake crypto. (Not really, I got demolished too!)<br>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 8:39 AM<br>
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> More Billionaire news [sigh]:<br>
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> What happened at Alameda Research<br>
> <a href="https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://milkyeggs.com/?p=175</a><br>
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> On 10/31/22 10:28, Steve Smith wrote:<br>
>> Great quote from CDs screed:<br>
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>> "Every billionaire is a policy failure, but every billionaire is also a factory for producing policy failures at scale."<br>
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