A few weeks ago, my crypto friend (everyone has one) told me that he was “about £70,000 down”. He is what passes for middle class in London, and can presumably afford to lose £70,000, as he made it all from crypto over the past few years. Having unburdened himself of his losses, he started talking about buying the dip, which suggests he hasn’t totally lost the faith. Of course, set against the recent losses, he’s a minnow. It’s not just crypto, either. Mark Zuckerberg and Bernard Arnault have lost more than $40bn apiece so far this year, largely as a result of falling shares — a loss equivalent to the GDP of Serbia or Azerbaijan. The $22bn wealth of Forrest Li, Singapore’s richest man, fell 80 per cent in May, for similar reasons. That knocked him out of the world 500 rich list, as calculated by data group Bloomberg.
几周前，我一位炒币的朋友——人人都有这么一个朋友——告诉我他“大约损失了7万英镑”。他在伦敦算得上中产阶级，而且大概能承受7万英镑的损失，因为这些钱全是他过去几年炒加密货币赚来的。他抱怨完自己的损失后，又开始谈论抄底，这说明他并没有完全失去信心。