From: jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu 
  
 On 2025-08-30, Jethro_uk  wrote: 
 > On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:17:38 +0000, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 >> On 2025-08-30, Jethro_uk  wrote: 
 >>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:07:18 +0100, Mark Goodge wrote: 
 >>>> I own a teeny tiny bit of Bitcoin. I paid €€100 for it, in 2017. It's 
 >>>> currently worth €€623. 
 >>> 
 >>> I bought €€10 worth back in 2011 when it was all hype. This was as part 
 >>> of my brief in IT strategy. My employer declined to cover it on 
 >>> expenses (hence a modest amount). So they're mine. 
 >>> 
 >>> Have spent about €€300 of it over the years and currently have €€8,000 in 
 >>> hand. 
 >> 
 >> Seriously, if you haven't cashed it in by now, when will you? 
 > 
 > No one believed it would hit $10,000, and it's now at c $80,000 
 > 
 > No one thinks it could hit $100,000 .... 
  
 That's the sort of thinking which would guarantee you never make any 
 money out of it (beyond the €€290 profit you already cashed), even though 
 you think you already have. 
  
 >>> Sadly my report on it ended saying that crypto was an interesting 
 >>> development that was ripe for scammers and in no way a viable 
 >>> commercial investment. 
 >> 
 >> Well you weren't wrong... 
 > 
 > Of course I wasn't. 
  
 *Now*, when you've managed to sound indignant that I said you were 
 correct, would be an appropriate time for GB to jump in with his 
 "people are allowed to agree with you" screed. 
  
 > It's still a scamsters playground ($TRUMP, $MELANIA) and I wouldn't 
 > touch it with yours, as they say. That's not to say it's not a way of 
 > making money. As long as it's other peoples money you are investing. 
  
 You might as well say lottery tickets are a way of making money, if you 
 can get other people to pay for them. 
  
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