Quote from: stompix on June 08, 2025, 04:51:39 PM

Yup, $6. So why would this be a story? How could we ramp it up to make it clickbaitish?

Let's first change the currency, exchange the $6 to naira, but then forget about it and leave the sum in dollars.
The new title becomes:
A man has stolen $10,000 from his girlfriend ? now this is title worthy.

Let's add the man has also won, from 10k naira to 100 million, so let's again forget about the currency and make it 100 MILLION USD! And spice it up with the girlfriend suing him!
New title:
Man steals $10k from girlfriend, wins $100 million, girlfriend sues him!

Since it's all made up, let's not care about where it happened it's either Nigeria in 2021 or Uganda in 2025

But since it's a fake story anyhow, let's spice it up let's add a picture from 2019 about a guy that won a parlay with his own money and little drama whatsoever.

So, what did the story turn out to be, much like a Radio Yerevan joke:

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Q: Is it true that Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov from Moscow won a car in a lottery?
A: In principle yes, but it wasn't Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, but Aleksander Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov; he is not from Moscow but from Odessa;
It was not a car, but a bicycle; he didn't win it ? it was stolen from him.

Moral of the story?
Stop believing every post on Twitter or Facebook. Ignoring the fact that every bitcoiner should live by the principle of "don't trust, verify," these are gambling stories, and you could trust a gambler about this as much as a fisherman and his stories about the 20-meter 100 tons carp he just failed to catch.

stealing from someone you love, someone you're with, even if it's $1, is wrong and disgusting
then if you do it for the game, it means you are totally under the effect of the game
It means you are addicted to gambling and have a problem.