Article 5V1SB ‘Trading is gambling, no doubt about it’ – how cryptocurrency dealing fuels addiction

‘Trading is gambling, no doubt about it’ – how cryptocurrency dealing fuels addiction

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Rob Davies
from Technology | The Guardian on (#5V1SB)

Fears rise over how unregulated trading and promotion of crypto assets are creating a new generation of addicts

Steven has lost more bitcoin than most people will ever own.

Raised on the remote Shetland archipelago, he left school at 13 to become a trawlerman before moving into construction, eventually earning 85,000 a year digging tunnels for Crossrail.

But my mind would twist and I'd go all in, like a poker player that thought he had the perfect hand. I was convinced I was going to be a bitcoin millionaire."

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