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Ask HN: Did you play in the crypto roulette?

1 pointsby estebandalelralmost 3 years ago
Honestly, I always had a bad vibe on crypto. I <i>did</i> buy some bitcoin and ether, and played a little with it but despised the computational complexity for anything. Also gotta confess I lost pretty much all my money on it, but never went on Axie or any P2E game.

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indoorskieralmost 3 years ago
I didn&#x27;t, but plenty of friends and family did in the hype cycle. Initially I was just kinda too lazy, then started to see some red flags.<p>Unsuccessfully trying to convince friends to stay away from crypto did give me loads of empathy for people like climate scientists - you spend your whole life trying to measure the average surface temperature accurately, and some random dude goes &quot;but what about the summer of 76&quot;. It&#x27;s just too easy to quickly dismiss relatively complicated arguments or explanations.