These past couple of days, a lengthy post about a certain female celebrity in the entertainment industry has gone viral across the internet. I don't really have any strong feelings about the celebrity in question—I'm not into celebrity culture anyway. But I did take a moment to look into the person who wrote that post, and it turns out they're quite a well-known figure.I kept stumbling upon introductions of the post's author online, and words like "cryptocurrency" and "Bitcoin" sounded oddly familiar. It reminded me that last year, my colleague seemed to be buying this coin. According to her, it was incredibly profitable.I've never been into these things. Even when my colleague talked about it right next to me, I wasn't the least bit tempted. I've never believed in the idea of easy money falling from the sky, and even if it did, it wouldn't land on me. I'm the type who doesn't even dabble in the stock market, let alone invest in Bitcoin.To buy this coin, my colleague actually went out and bought an iPhone at the time, saying that you needed an Apple phone to purchase Bitcoin. Besides buying one for herself, she also got one for her parents—that phone was for them, and they invested even more than she did. During that period, I noticed she was really busy, teaching her parents how to use the iPhone and how to buy the coin.I asked her, "Aren't you afraid of losing money?" She said she wasn't—at worst, the 70,000 yuan would just go down the drain. But she mentioned that a friend of her parents was a specialist in this field, and they were buying Bitcoin by following that friend's lead. Apparently, that friend had already made millions. They wanted to throw some money in and give it a shot. Making money wasn't the goal; they just wanted to try it out.Is it really that good to be true? I figured my colleague and her parents must have gotten swept up in the hype. If someone's already making money, why would they drag others along? There's got to be a catch—money doesn't come that easily. But maybe they've been brainwashed. After all, the money they invested was spare cash, so losing it wouldn't be a big deal. Unlike us, who treat every penny like treasure and hold onto it tightly. I guess that's the difference between wealthy families and the rest of us.If it were me, wouldn't it be better to just keep that spare money in the bank? The interest might be lower, but at least it's safe. It's been almost a year since all this happened, and I still don't know if my colleague struck it rich. She never mentioned it, and I never dared to ask.
