Business English

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A few years ago, my friend Bert started talking about BitCoin and how 'crypto' was going to be the next big thing. I just laughed at him, but he bought hundreds of BitCoins when they were only a dollar or two each. I told him he had lost his mind.

However, I stopped laughing when BitCoin skyrocketed. It reached a hundred dollars, then a thousand dollars, then ten thousand...

Bert sold all of his BitCoins when the price hit $15,000. And that's when I finally decided to buy some myself. The price continued to almost 20,000, and then plummeted.

Bert is a millionaire now. And me? I'm broke.