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by pjc50 333 days ago
It was also a mistake for me to not buy a lottery ticket with the numbers 4 11 17 25 41 51.

There's a slow drip feed of stories of people who did buy BTC and have lost it, either to human error, lack of backups, crime, or failure of institutions. Remember MtGox collapse in 2014? The whole fad was obviously over by then, wasn't it?

We're going to have another 2008-style bubble collapse eventually. But it's not clear what the radius of effect will be.