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What a dumb retort

If you got burned by mortgage backed derivatives and lost your life savings, it's ultimately because you were (knowingly or not) speculating on the value of real estate assets and making an assumption about future values of said assets.

In the case of Nomad, it's that you put yourself at risk by using their service you could've lost everything you put in.



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>it's ultimately because you were (knowingly or not) speculating on the value of real estate assets

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>it's ultimately because you were (knowingly or not) speculating on the value of crypto assets

Not seeing how these are different


They're not. Just as "everyone" was saying that those particular real estate assets were incredibly risky, so too is "everyone" saying that all crypto assets are incredibly risky.

I'm sorry, but they were selling shitty sub-prime mortgages as AAA investments, my friend.

They claimed high-risk mortgages would turn AAA by the magic of financial and statistical shenanigans. That's not far from "zero initialized vector" shenanigans.

Investing in AAA securities is not speculation, by financial standards, by the way.


>Investing in AAA securities is not speculation, by financial standards, by the way.

I would argue that it is now after seeing the bullshit the ratings agencies pulled during that fleecing of the world.


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