679 sats \ 7 replies \ @ryu 5 Sep 2023 \ on: Daily discussion thread
Feeling the burn from being part of a scam my brother fell for regarding a bullshit crypto exchange.
I'm not too upset at him, since he didn't know any better; moreso I'm pissed at myself for throwing lots of money down the fucking drain.
Hope other stackers have better days than I will.
I feel your pain going through something similar. Stay strong
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Only silver lining here is that my motivation to find a job shot up tenfold, and I've already signed up for Bitwage so that all my paychecks once getting work will be in Bitcoin.
At least my remaining funds are secure.
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Awesome good luck to you! Hopefully in this bear market you can accumulate as many sats as possible
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Younger or older brother?
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Younger, four years my junior.
Live and learn for both of us, I guess.
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Damn. As a younger brother (I'm 33 he's 40ish) i cringed at how shamed I would feel for misleading my bro due to my own.. Whatever it was. Blindness, stupidity, naivety.
I'd be worried that you'd never trust me again.
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The worst aspect of my experience was that by the time I knew for certain it was a scam (certain things he told me raised red flags, but didn't trigger a full refusal to continue), it had already costed me fifteen short of $300.
At that point and doing research following a bigger loss on top of that, I engaged in sunk cost action and simply told him "keep me updated on whether you can pull all that out to your Lightning wallet or not."
I was pissed; at both his falling for it, and myself being the biggest loser.
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