The fact that shaming people for failing to be rich is so common within the crypto community that it has a name, says a lot about the crypto "community".
Kind of reminds me of another "community" that crypto enthusiasts have been claiming to be morally superior to since day one. Unsurprisingly, they share several other ugly traits between them as well. Greed being the most prominent.
It led to a good outcome. If anyone deserves to be a crypto millionaire, it's Andreas, for everything he's done for informing people about what Bitcoin is all about. He's responsible, at least indirectly, for why the price is so high today.
As for Roger Vers' comment, not everyone was in a good financial position in 2012 and 2013. I wasn't. If I was, I would have bought enough bitcoin that I would have easily been a millionaire by now. But instead I watched from the sidelines, and bought a small amount at a time when I could and did my best not to be in a position where I was forced to sell, which still happened at one point when I was unemployed for four months.
I'm in a much better position nowadays, but still not so well off I can afford more than $100 each month to invest into it.
This is a very well-deserved recognition for someone who has poured countless hours of his life to educate the world about Bitcoin and the ongoing crypto-currency revolution. I bought his Mastering Bitcoin book when it was still in Beta, and it surely changed my life for good. Thanks Andreas!
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[ 1.2 ms ] story [ 25.1 ms ] threadKind of reminds me of another "community" that crypto enthusiasts have been claiming to be morally superior to since day one. Unsurprisingly, they share several other ugly traits between them as well. Greed being the most prominent.
He was just trying to emphasize, what in his view is a discrepancy between what some people preach and what they do.
As for Roger Vers' comment, not everyone was in a good financial position in 2012 and 2013. I wasn't. If I was, I would have bought enough bitcoin that I would have easily been a millionaire by now. But instead I watched from the sidelines, and bought a small amount at a time when I could and did my best not to be in a position where I was forced to sell, which still happened at one point when I was unemployed for four months.
I'm in a much better position nowadays, but still not so well off I can afford more than $100 each month to invest into it.
There, I said it.
Here is an example of a man, practically strapped to a currency gaining 100,000's% in appreciation and he did not invest anything.
Why? Because "he had a family to support"?
Don't we all have some family to help and take care of?
He, and everyone else, is confusing the effects as a cause.
The true cause is he did not see Investing as required spending, but merely as optional. This is poverty mindset.
I will bet you that he will lose the 2M+ within 10 years and blame it on "debts" and "helping family".
He's Greek... so not too many surprises there then again.