Assuming this thread story is indeed real, it would depend on the contract that your friend had signed. Not sure about each government employee contracts, but surely there were never such clauses regarding that unless, just like others mentioned in here, there is a ban imposed in crypto in your country.

I don't think that your friend will be found hodling crypto anyway unless he's like the "feeling influencer" or "feeling like Elon Musk" kind of celebrity.

At least just make them aware. Parenting is indeed hard since you still have to let them decide for themselves instead of being that usual toxic parent wherein they force their ways and traditions to their offsprings, just like I mentioned previously in this thread which is commonly an Asian culture. In Western Culture, children tend to separate away from their parents after 18, correct me if I am wrong though.

You can still tell them about BTC, but don't force them if they don't want to adopt that kind of knowledge yet or if they aren't ready to learn such decentralized stuffs since usually the opposite is being taught at school

Cause I ain't someone that wanted to chase people just to pay their lent amount. I can deal with interest and calculation on how to profit off from my lending business. It's much easier now with hodling and I am open to more other income that could potentially make another branch of businesses.
Trading isn't even for me in crypto, but I am okay with trading commodities like the usual buy and sell stuff you see in Facebook.

Just careful in bearish market as many would definitely try to gain BTC then might scam you by defaulting in a loan. If you can do both then good for ya. It's just way too much for me to handle lists of lenders, lol.

I had seen this user creating a lot of threads like a month ago? If I can recall correctly, s/he also has an alt account and this could be the main. I already saw a lot of threads from them discussing about the usual stuff like getting people interested into their project.

Considering how bad bounties became since 2017 and ICO years, I am not surprised that people would now aim for fixed BTC payments. Back then I used to do bounties just for funsies and hey money is money and why not try to test the waters.
I wasted almost 3 months for just worthless tokens.

Considering that alts are usually capable of shorter gains, I can see why people just usually hold them in exchange. The risk and cost isn't worth it though in the end. The exchange gave you a wallet...well to exchange in their site. These days I am now just seeing these exchange sites as a service and not that kind of service where I hundred percent entrust my money.

In the long term hodlings like Bitcoin, that's like screwing myself up for an upcoming vulnerability issues with the site, lol.

I guess some people just can't help doing that unless they really encountered the "unexpected losses".

Not surprised if there are many underground dealings here in my area even if Bitcoin isn't banned in here. Nobody can just stop something that's not being administered by anyone. Government around the world could still go and find Satoshi, but we've been at that for almost decades and people have been creating BS conspiracy theories about their identity.

On the event of my own country banning Bitcoin, there would be plenty of users using VPNs since it's highly likely that the crypto exchanges would be blocked already. There's just always that hole that people can do to bypass these restrictions.

......Or just put an asterisk to each advise you mentioned. This is usually what I do when I tell my friends about my story using Bitcoin. I am not responsible to where s/he uses her/his money and the volatility of the market. Surely they're intelligent enough to know that volatile market is out of anyone's control.   

On the other side, I could just tell that I use Bitcoin for storing my money instead of using banks and then it's up to him/her whether s/he would use it for investment purposes.

Quite rare here also in my area, but people are aware and somehow knowledgeable for a bit about Bitcoin. Though since most of the people here in my area are money-diggers, they're interested more in earning part rather than the storage of money part.

With money, you can't really "just choose" who you trust. Even the ones within your family could turn against you and leave you to dust. Adding up to what you just said, you can't even sometimes trust your parents. In Asian culture, it's a fucking no-no. They'll put the burden to you when it comes to money and good luck having something left in your wallet since they found out that you're holding crypto. Surely they heard already in the news that crypto can make people rich.

In Western culture, I am pretty sure it's different.

Hell no, your parents could even be worse than a random stranger. I am saying this not because I have a toxic family, but from a story from a friend of mine. For spouses, careful of those gold (oops) diggers.

Well here in my country we have some web wallet app that can be also used as an exchange (Coins PH). While I did not encounter any scary issue, the recent wallet update made almost made my jaw drop as my funds in the original wallet suddenly all went to zero then I realized they're going to do a wallet upgrade like the usual improvement and stuff.

Nothing was lost, but you get the idea and what I felt during that real life experience. We all know the usual "not your keys, not your crypto" sayings. You'll never know the feeling of it until you really experienced it, lmao.

The caveat is just use these services when you're using what they offer like trading, paying bills (for the app I used, not sure if other exchanges do that lol), and the usual day-to-day transactions.

Yeah. Back around 2017 and 2020 when I attempted to join one bounty, it was just like a hit and miss kind of stuff. You never know if your 3-month work would be worth it in the end. When ICO became like a hot topic, it was just like being visited slowly by scammers until nobody even dared to do ICO bounties anymore.

Not sure if airdrops is like considered to be "bounty campaign" since back then, they were like separate stuff but to this day, I heard that there were still some airdrops worth doing, but the risk is just getting shitcoin into your wallet.

Although to be fair, the way that bounties work back then were still effective, not sure if they still do Twitter, Facebook, Reddit bounties, but with that campaign, you have plenty of audience that could open their ears and eyes for your project depending if your project is worth visiting.

I guess we reside in the same region, huh. I am not sure if it just the Asian culture that does that. Considering how it is common for Asian to be almost look like perfect to their relatives and parents especially in academics, it seemingly becomes like a cultural related issue.

I wanted to hear on what was your father's reaction when you started to buy Bitcoin though. I don't mean to dig in, Z390 but considering that you were already making enough money as you mentioned, would he be surprised or proud of you?

You can still teach your children how to use Bitcoin. Just give them an idea like an ELI5 then just let them decide by their own if they wanted to adopt Bitcoin into one of their knowledge. You can still guide them slowly, but let them learn by their own pacing. No force, just continuous guidance.

I don't know where country do you reside from, OP but this seems like a toxic family culture here in my country in the Philippines where in the parents would force their children to adopt what they had learn in their lives thinking that their knowledge is still relevant to this day. It's like the boomer mindset in simpler words.  The children would want to be a software developer, but his/her parents would want them to be an engineer even if the son/daughter purely hates it.

To what you just said, I would just tell my children for awareness that there is such thing as Bitcoin and I would just let them know that I would be here to guide them if they became interested to it, not really forcing it.

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I would still teach them how to handle money in general though like all those budgeting-topics whenever the right time already arrives.

This is true not just for the children but to the elders not adopting the latest technology these days. Unless there's like a good reason in not adopting a certain technology, I don't think it should be problem. If they stick the usual QWERTY phones, that's fine but if they think that they can still use floppy disk to store their documents electronically then I think there's gotta be more KT that should be involved.

Who's this "investing influencer" you're talking about, Winderl?
Surely that "investing influencer" still has something unmentioned aside from the answer s/he gave. I would not keep buying BTC when resources became like a scarce for me. I would not loan or/and sell my land just to invest in crypto. That's too much desperation on my own end and that's like digging myself a hole that I would not be able to get out from.

About those crypto investors back in 2011, surely they would say the same of "just buy and hold BTC". It isn't rocket science. Just invest what you afford to lose and forget about it in around year or two. What coins do I think that these early investors hold in complement of BTC and ETH? Surely it is still Bitcoin. Just from how there was massive waves of scams happening to each trends, I won't even attempt to try in the altcoin side if I was that investor though.

Depends on where you invest your coin. I would invest in Bitcoin instead of other shitcoins out there if I have less money to be intended for investment. It's not just worth the risk of losing it over something that's obvious that it isn't going to be profitable in the long-term

Just like Wiwo mentioned, it just depends on where you reside. If you're from US or any first world countries, it won't make you rich at all unless miraculously Bitcoin just happened to surpass $500k at any of these days right now. If you reside in third-world country, it would be more than enough to make you a millionaire let alone just by investing to it surely makes you a millionaire already like let's say for example here in my country, 1 BTC is equal to 1.1 Million PHP.

Out of curiosity where did you get the conclusion that BTC and ETH made people millionaire in the last bull run?

This might be off-topic but please bear with me since I kinda relate somehow to the topic.
Back when I was learning software development, I was also getting overwhelmed by lots of stuffs to learn. I am pretty sure that web development was just like HTML, CSS and then Javascript until I read about the other frameworks like what the fuck are these. That led me to being overwhelmed on this whole journey in my own career.

Turns out that I don't need to learn all those stuffs anyway. As for your friend, you don't need to learn everything. There's just way too much to absorb in learning Bitcoin. Surely not everyone here knows BRC-20 and not everyone here knows how to mine Bitcoin (count me in as price of rigs here in my country is insane).

If your friend only knows how to be a hodler, that's perfectly fine. If s/he wants to learn more stuffs related to Bitcoin just take it one step at a time. It does not have to be one day journey.

While I do have some technical knowledge in CS and IT, technical stuffs in Bitcoin is not really my cup of tea. It might not be for everyone anyway. Kudos to those who have extensive technical knowledge in Bitcoin.

I mean it is Twitter who would you trust in that scenario already. That's Twitter where most of the people there are claiming to be expert. I had encountered the similar scam as yours but mine was a little different wherein they emailed me their website to claim my token and to make themselves look legitimate, they indicated that they're in partnership with MEW which is more alarming to me to be fair, lol.

Almost got my wallet swept by these scums.

See those hot singles following your dummy account in Twitter? Yeah they're everywhere and now even fake bots are taking over there.

Even if it was being used for assistance, sometimes it overdelivers and some startup business surely used ChatGPT more than just hiring developers. Just because it cannot do anything that a developer can't do does not mean it can't still improve in the upcoming years.

Although to be fair, just like I mentioned in the previous reply here, it could still be open to more jobs since dealing with AI let alone ChatGPT isn't just typing in the chat simply. There are those such things as prompt engineering and you might still need to know on how to deal with an AI. That would mean that it might still be open to more opportunity/jobs.

I can still recall back in the days when I try to automate filling up Excel sheets using Selenium with Python language.

Someone still has to maintain the software anyway. Maybe the scary part would be if AI would fix itself. There will always be a bug in a software and someone still has to fix those recurring bugs and maintain it.

Maybe just skip out AIDoge and put those instead to Bitcoin. Just because AI is quite a hot topic now does not mean it can still last for almost 3 years in the crypto market. If you're really serious about AI, at least just put it in non-meme ones.

It's your plan anyway, just sharing my 2 cents in here. I wanted to invest to meme coins back in 2017, but thankfully I didn't. They're just for the short-term hypes and a little bit of utility, but Bitcoin already gave those utility better in some instances.

This also. Although I can't blame the OP and just sharing my insights, loaning itself is already a risky move even if it is in non-crypto related reasons.

Oh yeah that reminded me when I was like almost semi-newbie in Bitcoin. It was like a surprise to it to fall down back around 6k after it tried to go past 20 at that year. It was like still an achievement for me to be able to hold at least throughout that year and I gotta be honest that I almost panic sold my whole wallets that time.

During 2020, it was quite a different story for me though. I kinda cashed out a little bit since I really needed a cash at that time so yeah. Bitcoin still got its adoption from other people though, but it kinda gave birth to some shit NFTs at that time.

I would kinda consider myself also a small investor considering that USD rate here in my country is quite high so Bitcoin is kinda expensive to hold and starting out could turn out to be a pain in the ass. Small investor ain't a bad thing though. Screw all those gatekeepers.
Everyone just needs to start somewhere.

There were just rumors or words circulating about certain companies laying off employees due to ChatGPT. Either way someone still has to maintain the quality of whatever the company is offering anyway to their clients/customers.

ChatGPT is powerful, but someone has to still do something about the output it gives. Remember when people were saying that Adobe Dreamweaver and/or WYSIWYG editor would destroy the job market for web developers? It's not technically an AI but it eases web development. Still there were companies that are looking for web devs of all levels including entry-level.

Companies would then train their people to use the newer ways of doing whatever job they're doing. Surely newspaper editors back in the days using typewrites would now be trained to use computer and type in articles and learn newer formats in creating an article.