A Bitcoin booster got $2.3M after being bitshamed for being poor

https://qz.com/1151233/andreas-antonopoulos-got-2-3-million-in-bitcoin-donations-after-roger-ver-bitshamed-him/

by NicoJuicy • 9 years ago

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659087• 9 years ago

The fact that shaming people for failing to be rich is so common within the crypto community that it has a name, says a lot about the crypto "community".

Kind of reminds me of another "community" that crypto enthusiasts have been claiming to be morally superior to since day one. Unsurprisingly, they share several other ugly traits between them as well. Greed being the most prominent.

randomThoughts9• 9 years ago

Not trying to defend Roger Ver, but that is an awful interpretation. He wasn't shaming anybody for being poor.

He was just trying to emphasize, what in his view is a discrepancy between what some people preach and what they do.

bastawhiz• 9 years ago

Except he made a bad assumption. So not only was he wrong, he made his invalid point at the expense of someone else's reputation.

cableshaft• 9 years ago

It led to a good outcome. If anyone deserves to be a crypto millionaire, it's Andreas, for everything he's done for informing people about what Bitcoin is all about. He's responsible, at least indirectly, for why the price is so high today.

As for Roger Vers' comment, not everyone was in a good financial position in 2012 and 2013. I wasn't. If I was, I would have bought enough bitcoin that I would have easily been a millionaire by now. But instead I watched from the sidelines, and bought a small amount at a time when I could and did my best not to be in a position where I was forced to sell, which still happened at one point when I was unemployed for four months.

I'm in a much better position nowadays, but still not so well off I can afford more than $100 each month to invest into it.

vivab0rg• 9 years ago

This is a very well-deserved recognition for someone who has poured countless hours of his life to educate the world about Bitcoin and the ongoing crypto-currency revolution. I bought his Mastering Bitcoin book when it was still in Beta, and it surely changed my life for good. Thanks Andreas!

A Bitcoin booster got $2.3M after being bitshamed for being poor

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