The Belgian exchange student that I was friends with in high school found me on X.
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300 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 8h
That first line 🤌
Most important thing for people to understand to avoid the narrative traps of "better" shitcoins
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 3h
Yep. A perfect response.
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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 10h
Are you keeping up a conversation with him? We had a few exchange students when my daughter was in high school. One of them talked about bitcoin right when I got interested. She was impressed that two kids in the high school had bought Teslas after cashing out their bitcoin. I wonder if she bought some.
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53 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 9h
That was my last message, but we chat about something every couple of weeks/months since he found me (he found me a couple months ago). I was his first real American friend I think - before he became friends with all the kids that were cooler than me.
He works in banking afaik so this should be a quick orange pill ... maybe.
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 9h
That's good. I think about those exchange students but we don't speak often. Two from Italy and one from Belgium. I know the economic prospects in Europe are worse than here in the US. One just had her first child. None have great jobs, so far as I can tell. They would all benefit from bitcoin.
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36 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 9h
I wonder, what makes you say that?
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 9h
That's what they had told me at the time, though things have gotten worse in the US since. They were startled at what they perceived as the level of wealth most in the US seemed to have. I haven't spoken at length with them for a while, so I don't have any real impression now.
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136 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 8h
I think it is changing a little, but we can't really tell yet, because of the "everything boom" aka intentional weakening of the dollar. From being on both sides of the Atlantic this year I feel that Americans had it a bit tougher on the inflation side than Euros lately, but there's quite some margin there, so it's not that bad really. But Europe isn't uniform at all and even at the country level there are huge differences.
If you were talking about Italy specifically though, prospects in terms of employment is rapidly improving according to the latest OECD report - from 11% unemployment to 6%, and they're doing fiscal reforms to reduce future risk, so economically, that's doing better.
But, I can't help but feel that in Belgium it's been going downhill for a longer time due to mismanagement (their debt-to-gdp is almost as bad as in the US, but they have 55% income tax!), and of my friends from there, many have already left, and many more want out. None of them that are currently there are happy to be there.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @spiderman 6h
Interesting exchange, when I came to bitcoin, the big attraction was still the numbers go up game (i.e. inflation hedge, number as measured in Fiat trash etc.)
But now I realise the
is a far bigger and more important aspect of it being true money.
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7h
I wonder if you said something like, "I wouldn't advise someone invest in Bitcoin unless they first have an understanding of what it is, why it was created, and how it works."
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fenix 6h
I think you did a good job in your explanation cutting the bad ideias by the root
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kayzone 2h
Bitcoin investment is good, but aways put your mind there because crypto currencies fluctuation of prices are other things to consider, what time to invest and time to get profits.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2053456d48 7h
Bitcoin ecosystem is great but never put all your eggs in the same basket.
Because we never know.....
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