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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 150 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gee, if only there was some way to have seen this coming before hand...

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup.

Could have put the money in stock instead and they'd likely have made a profit since then.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hell, they could have stuffed it into their mattress and it would have been a better investment lol.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Inflation can't even lose this much money is such a short time

The first tweet nft sold for $2.9mil and is now "worth" less than $4.

Like it was worth anything at all in the beginning anyways

Edit: Spleling

[–] ooi_vebnq@r.nf 7 points 1 year ago

Beautiful edit.

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Might a a good idea to buy it, I'm sure it will sell for 10$ with some haggling.

[–] kubica@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Actually I didn't have many hopes in humanity when it started to happen. It's a bit comforting, not much though with other things around.