Three days ago, I found out that the mobile app I was using to buy cryptocurrency, Crypto.com, updated its program without letting users know in advance...causing me to lose around $325 (the amount that I had last time I checked my balance on Thursday, May 27) in investment. So how did I lose that $325, you ask? Well, the app is no longer compatible with my smartphone (and Crypto.com doesn't provide the ability to buy and sell coins on a PC instead), which means that I would need to buy a whole new device—even though my current Android is working fine—to regain access to my crypto. And the thought of having to spend a few hundred dollars (or over a thousand dollars if I were to finally purchase an iPhone) on a new device just to keep track of a financial investment that is currently worth less than the phone I'm viewing it on annoys the hell out of me.
So what's the cryptocurrency that I invested in, you're wondering? You guessed it— The Shiba Inu coin! I originally owned Dogecoins, but I sold all of them since 1.) I wanted to focus on buying more SHIB instead (I'm currently at 36 million coins), and 2.) the time to buy DOGE was last year. For the amount of money that you need to spend in order to acquire enough Dogecoins to make a significant profit (which would be over a thousand dollars), you can buy a hundred million to a billion Shiba coins for that same amount and patiently wait for them to go up in value over the coming years. Dogecoin, after all, took 8 years since its 2013 inception to reach where it is today...and it's not even at a dollar per coin yet.
So going back to the original point of this Blog entry, Crypto.com sucks. While my Android has been up for a replacement since last year, as mentioned in the first paragraph above it's still working well...and I find it infuriating that one app is forcing me to change my phone to regain access to my commodity. Would it be overdoing it if I said that the folks behind Crypto.com are crooks? They basically stole my money—and based on what its customer service told me through Twitter (shown below)—the only way to get it back is to unnecessarily spend cash on an unneeded device.
Combined this with the fact that the Los Angeles Lakers should've won Game 4 against the Phoenix Suns (even without Anthony Davis on the court) today, and you can see that this Sunday is garbage. For me, at least. If I do get a new phone, I'm still gonna talk trash about Crypto.com...even if I end up selling all Shiba coins and withdrawing my money from Crypto's wallet. We'll see.
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