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"have fun staying poor," he said, clicking on the coin roulette, eyes never leaving his plugged in android tablet, physically hot to the touch from the max CPU load.

"i am going to retire in 5 years. have you heard of prove-your-steaks? its gonna change crypto. you can get 20% back, just lock up your starving kids Earned Income Tax Credit for a year, and you'll make $500!"

"have you heard of this new shitcoin? probably not - i know you retired from crypto! haha...anyway, it exposes you to upside leveraged of @PISSCOIN and is tethered to the stable-genius coin. its basically free Unisex-swapped tokens."

"hey. some guy on discord was helping me install a chrome plugin to manage my coins and now my $400 in life savings is gone...are you still good with computers?"




"Hey I just invested $2000 in options a few days ago, what's a margin call?"

"Turns out my pension fund was investing in BBB- CDOs, now they've gone BBBust"

The argument that you can't (or don't) get burned in non-crypto markets is made in bad faith.


You cannot get margin called on a cash account, because you cannot make positions that are not 100% collateral covered, unless you have 25k. Then you can do that, and trade more than 3 times a week (and don't have to wait til settlement)

Pension funds don't deserve to go bust, but shouldn't be bailed out if they fail to diversify their portfolio.

There are a lot more safe-gaurds in investing, because all these games have been played before.

But those require consent too - with crypto, someone can, and will, irrevocably steal your funds without possible recourse.


.. and indeed the UK and other countries have banned the OTC sale of particularly bad ones, such as binary options. There is some effort to prevent people selling overly fraudulent or risky products to the general public, even if it's leaky.


That wasn't the argument being made, like at all. Your argument is actually the one being made in bad faith.




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