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Re:What Happened to the Guys Who Invested Their Life Savings... by mcguire on Sunday September 08, 2019 @04:40PM (#20913278)
Whats worse is that those who said, "maybe that's not a good idea" at the time were attacked six ways from Sunday and the same thing will happen the next time.
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Re:What Happened to the Guys Who Invested Their Life Savings... by derekp7 on Sunday September 08, 2019 @05:08PM (#20913433)
And even once they get burned, they don't understand what they did wrong. Instead of cashing out part of their stash for taxes (equiv. to the taxes owed on the coins they traded, plus the taxes owed on what they cashed out), they effectively went gambling with the government's money.
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