The head of the federal government agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants the mortgage giants to consider accepting a homebuyer’s cryptocurrency holdings in their criteria for buying mortgages from banks.
Now you can pay your McMansion with McDollars and help bring about the next subprime mortgage crisis.
I agree. I thought the idea and technology behind it was really interesting.
But also looking back. Writing was on the wall. A lot of people justify not investing into it. But truth is this was a vehicle that a lot of people could have been well off with. But online types couldn’t help but shit on it.
Is it great? No.
Could people have changed their lives? Absolutely.
Will they get another chance like this? Probably not.
And it’s one of those moments in my like where I’m kind of waking up to the type of people who did this complaining about crypto or AI or Google or whatever the new thing is. They’re always there just acting like a body guard to opportunity for growth and improvement. It’s the Reddit mentality the r/relationship advice mob shouting DIVORCE at every opportunity. It sucks because people do listen to them.
I agree. I thought the idea and technology behind it was really interesting.
But also looking back. Writing was on the wall. A lot of people justify not investing into it. But truth is this was a vehicle that a lot of people could have been well off with. But online types couldn’t help but shit on it.
Is it great? No.
Could people have changed their lives? Absolutely.
Will they get another chance like this? Probably not.
And it’s one of those moments in my like where I’m kind of waking up to the type of people who did this complaining about crypto or AI or Google or whatever the new thing is. They’re always there just acting like a body guard to opportunity for growth and improvement. It’s the Reddit mentality the r/relationship advice mob shouting DIVORCE at every opportunity. It sucks because people do listen to them.