Educational Byte: Should You Tell Friends and Family That You Own Crypto?
We get it: talking about crypto in general and about your crypto holdings in particular can be tempting, sometimes. It's not as if numerous people haven't done it before, and isn't it about "spreading the word," after all? So, should you tell friends, family, and strangers about crypto? There’s no definitive answer to that, but we have some considerations ahead.
Why Many Crypto Users Stay Quiet
We’re gonna answer this with a couple of real stories. In 2017, a man we’ll call "John Doe" shared with a friend, Louis Meza, that he had a lot of saved Ether (ETH). It probably came as something natural, as an investment opportunity you’d share with any buddy. Meza didn’t take it like that, though. Instead of going to buy his own ETH portion, he joined forceswith two members of a Bronx biker gang to kidnap and threaten John Doe to get his...
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