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The Famous Last Words

Over the last year and a half, I have seen many, many offers promising potential investors that they too can get rich quickly with cryptocurrencies. I’ve seen hundreds, if not thousands of these promises of salvation, from all corners of the earth. Printed offers and online, videos or on social media. In all languages. When I look at these offers, ninety-nine percent of them had one thing in common: they were nearly always frivolous. At the very least they were spreading false information, either intentionally or for the purpose of manipulation.

Unfortunately, the offers have not improved over the course of time. The more popular Bitcoin and the blockchain become, the more experts and people with the ultimate method for earning money, lots of money, crawl out of their holes and siphon it off. I know that I am using quite a coarse expression, but I am doing so deliberately because I find it disgusting how people try to rip off those who are not sufficiently familiar with this new crypto world. How they use every trick in the fraudster’s book and all sorts of scams to take money, reader, out of your pocket.

Only education can help in this regard because the law itself can’t at the moment. Bafflement reigns there too. If you don’t understand what is happening yourself, you can’t act or protect others adequately. Education is the best defense. Knowledge is power. Knowledge protects.

I hope that I have been able to give you some of this knowledge with this book, and I hope I have been able to raise your awareness and provide enough information for you to be able to distinguish the nonsense, rip-offs and con artists from the truth, and that you can enjoy Bitcoin and blockchain.

Of course, you will be told that the situation is not portrayed correctly in this book. Some will warn that a government will switch off Bitcoin at some point. You will be told that it is better to store your private keys with the miner or the exchange because blockchains are not secure. You will be told that everything will be cracked once quantum computers arrive. That is one (incorrect) perspective.

Those on the other side will praise this book and try to use it to lure you into some rip-off scheme, to sell you involvement in some crypto cloud so-and-so system, to lead you astray, to stimulate your natural greed. A mixture of both formulae will probably be used, depending what they have in mind.

Judge for yourself against the basics of the wise and ignore offers that do not correspond to the rules.

Those who want to tell you something else, show you something, or prove something are motivated by other reasons. For most of these people, the only focus is on your money or keeping up your diminishing power. Be strong. I have just one request to close with. If you have enjoyed this book, please pass the word on so that your friends and acquaintances can acquire this knowledge too. Everyone should have a basic knowledge of crypto so that they are not standing open-mouthed having to watch helplessly from the sidelines as the future passes them by.

With this in mind, I wish you all the best and juicy spoils.

Joe Martin

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