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Tony Marini, lead counsellor at the cryptocurrency addiction clinic at Castle Craig hospital in Scotland, has called it “the crack cocaine of gambling because it is so fast. It’s this mentality that has led a number of gambling addiction charities to speak out on the dangers of cryptocurrency investment.
I’m too ashamed to tell my parents that I’ve just squandered all this money they worked so hard to give me.”ĭespite this, he’s now considering investing more to try to break even. Sometimes I wake up in the night panicking about what I’ve done and worried that someone will find out. “I’ve lost a lot of it and now there’s no way I can buy a house. He decided to invest half of the money he’d been given by his parents for a house deposit - “around £20,000” - into Bitcoin in early 2021. Jon, 29, who lives in Surbiton, found himself inspired by just these kinds of stories. In December 2020, they spoke to CNN, pointing out that while they have no property, pensions or liquid cash, crypto has bought them a five-star lifestyle of travel and leisure. Take one legend centred on a Dutch family who bet their entire life savings on Bitcoin in 2017 - and bought more during a crash in 2018. So what is the appeal, how much are these people making, and how easy is it to lose everything?įor years viral stories about vast fortunes being made, lost and made again have circulated. It’s estimated that the value of the currency will reach record highs this year - and more and more companies, including WeWork and Lush, are accepting payments in Bitcoin.īut in January, the Financial Conduct Authority issued a warning outlining the various risks associated with investing in crypto. In April, Bitcoin prices hit an all-time high (just over $64,000 - £46,000 - per coin), then halved in value almost overnight, only to rally again in May to a value of more than $40,000 (£28,000) per coin. Its instability is what makes it a thrill - but what also increases the risk. In the past few years the public appetite for investing in cryptocurrencies has reached fever pitch, with amateur investors pumping everything from life savings and house deposits to credit card loans into this particularly unpredictable market. A whole new generation of investors is on the rise: last week, it was reported that the proportion of students investing in cryptocurrencies tripled in the space of a year, in response to the pandemic and an unstable job market, prompting concerns that they could lose money they can’t afford. Around 2.3 million people in Britain now own some form of cryptocurrency and that figure rises every time there is a bounce in the value of Bitcoin. Welcome to the highs - and lows - of life cresting the crypto wave. My girlfriend made some comment about how I should have cashed out and I just threw my shopping bags in a rage. I stopped dead in the middle of the street. I came out of the cinema with my girlfriend and saw that the market was tanking. The most I can remember losing in a single day? It must have been about £100,000. “That was over the course of a few weeks.
The most I’ve lost was around £300,000,” says 32-year-old equities trader Tomas*.
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