User talk:JSM SHANKS

sympathy for crypto-currency investors...

I watched Friendly Jordies's video on cryptocurrency, and Bryan Legend. Can I ask whether you and User:Friendlyjordies are a single individual?

I am not a fan of cryptocurrency. I first started to pay attention to it following the mysterious death of fellow Canadian Gerald Cotten, another cryptocurrency King.

I feel sorry for his widow. Unlike Legend, Cotten was handsome.

I take the account of his widow, Jennifer Robertson, more or less at face value. She was a plump girl, with an uneventful love life, and then this rich, handsome, young millionaire sweeps her off her feet. She says she didn't really understand how cryptocurrency worked, or how he made so much money. I take this at face value. Unlike Ruth Madoff, who was allowed access to enough funds to live out a comfortable middle-class retirement, Robertson volunteered to forgo any fight over inheritance, and walked away with her pre-marriage car, and a few tens of thousands of dollars - presumably roughly the assets she brought to the marriage.

A lot of Cotten's investors, ghoulishly, want to see his corpse dug up, and the DNA tested, to confirm he really died, and isn't sipping cocktails on some beach in a nation with no extradition.

One can find a lot of articles, in the gray area publications that write about cryptocurrency, that express a lot of sympathy for the "investors". These articles argue that government agencies should be doing more to help them recover their investment.

It seems to me what these sympathizers are overlooking is that the investors chose cryptocurrency precisely because it was unrelugated, and their wealth would escape the pesky meddling from government financial regulations, and those pesky tax collectors. Geo Swan (talk) 18:38, 12 September 2023 (UTC)