04-19-2021, 03:30 AM
Anti-coin neighbor gleefully asked me what I was going to do now that I “lost my l
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I get on ok with a neighbor and we talk investing and retirement at times. He’s a good decade older. He is a good neighbor but definitely has a chip on his shoulder that I can afford to live next to him at my age with where home prices have gotten here. </p> <p>I don’t know who he’s getting his info from but he is rabidly anti-crypto. Thinks it’s all some Ponzi scheme. We’ve politely (usually) argued about crypto versus stocks. </p> <p>He tells me all the time that I’m risking my house and kids future with coins. </p> <p>Mowing the lawn this morning I bump into him and before the mowers are even off he’s gleefully asking how much financial trouble I’m in now that “crypto is crashed” after last night. </p> <p>I normally think comparing wallets is crass, but just the attitude on him. I couldn’t help it. So I pulled out the phone and opened my crypto portfolio tracking ap. </p> <p>I started by showing him the 24 hour view. He laughed. </p> <p>So then I showed him the view for the last month and then the last year. </p> <p>He was not happy. Insisted “that should just show you that you could lose everything any moment!”</p> <p>Ah well, at this rate I won’t be living next to him for much longer.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DeMiko"> /u/DeMiko </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/mtl5qk/anticoin_neighbor_gleefully_asked_me_what_i_was/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/mtl5qk/anticoin_neighbor_gleefully_asked_me_what_i_was/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I get on ok with a neighbor and we talk investing and retirement at times. He’s a good decade older. He is a good neighbor but definitely has a chip on his shoulder that I can afford to live next to him at my age with where home prices have gotten here. </p> <p>I don’t know who he’s getting his info from but he is rabidly anti-crypto. Thinks it’s all some Ponzi scheme. We’ve politely (usually) argued about crypto versus stocks. </p> <p>He tells me all the time that I’m risking my house and kids future with coins. </p> <p>Mowing the lawn this morning I bump into him and before the mowers are even off he’s gleefully asking how much financial trouble I’m in now that “crypto is crashed” after last night. </p> <p>I normally think comparing wallets is crass, but just the attitude on him. I couldn’t help it. So I pulled out the phone and opened my crypto portfolio tracking ap. </p> <p>I started by showing him the 24 hour view. He laughed. </p> <p>So then I showed him the view for the last month and then the last year. </p> <p>He was not happy. Insisted “that should just show you that you could lose everything any moment!”</p> <p>Ah well, at this rate I won’t be living next to him for much longer.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DeMiko"> /u/DeMiko </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/mtl5qk/anticoin_neighbor_gleefully_asked_me_what_i_was/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/mtl5qk/anticoin_neighbor_gleefully_asked_me_what_i_was/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R