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Nothing new. When you see ads in the subway to buy cryptocurrencies, and you have people buying cheaper coins because they don't realize they can buy a fraction

by 21 8y ago

Nothing new. When you see ads in the subway to buy cryptocurrencies, and you have people buying cheaper coins because they don't realize they can buy a fraction of a bitcoin, this happens. There is no fast way to get rich if you are dumb.

CPLX 8y ago
We still have reality television right?
- 21 8y ago
  You are not wrong: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/love-island-fame-is-more-lucrative-than-an-oxbridge-education https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/love-isla...
hyprCoin 8y ago
Looking through the communities around these 'cheaper coins', these people are not the dumb. The dumb people are busy with either no investment (paycheck to paycheck) or inactive investments (401k in index funds), not building their vision of the future on risky alts. It might work too, mostly it's software engineers.
granshaw 8y ago
The moment for me is when a Jack in the Box TV commercial mentioned Bitcoin