Posted on 05/18/2022 6:18:36 PM PDT by simpson96
Enthusiasm for crypto from Hollywood celebrities and top athletes reached a fever pitch over the past year. On social media, during interviews and even in music videos, they portrayed virtual currency as a world with its own hip culture and philosophy — one that was more inclusive than traditional finance and that involved the chance to make loads of money.
The Super Bowl was nicknamed the “Crypto Bowl” this year because so many ads — which cost as much as $7 million for 30 seconds — featured the industry, several of them starring boldface names.
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Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in. No response either from the basketball star LeBron James, who was featured in the company’s Super Bowl commercial this year.
Reese Witherspoon, an Oscar winner who declared online in December that “crypto is here to stay,” did not respond to a request for comment. Neither did Gwyneth Paltrow, another Oscar winner, who lent her name to a Bitcoin giveaway late last year.
Paris Hilton, who has nearly 17 million followers on Twitter who watch her coo over her lap dogs Crypto and Ether, didn’t respond to a request for comment. Neither did several other famous crypto pushers, such as Mila Kunis, Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady
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“try leaving the country and you’ll see the cost of things in different currencies.”
but not quoted in cryptocurrencies ...
try traveling more than 40 miles outside your town.
exchange boards are not uncommon
“exchange boards are not uncommon”
but can i go in ace hardware, home depot, lowes, safeway, or a honda dealership and buy stuff at those places with cryptothingies?
can you walk into those stores and buy anything with shares of microsoft, facebook, twitter, or any publicly traded company?
hell, can you buy anything in those stores with an ounce of silver or gold?
no.
your view of finances is beyond simplistic
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