{"id":50104,"date":"2021-10-11T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=50104"},"modified":"2021-10-14T17:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:58:55","slug":"why-digital-money-doesnt-feel-like-real-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/why-digital-money-doesnt-feel-like-real-money","title":{"rendered":"Why Digital Money Doesn’t Feel Like Real Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

COVID-19\u00a0changed our world. Often it feels like I\u2019m living my life only within these four walls, and everything else has moved online. Unreal.<\/p>\n

Ever felt the same?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s changed the way I feel about money too.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Adventures in the crypto world<\/span><\/h2>\n

Recently, I tried to take part in an\u00a0NFT<\/a>\u00a0drop. A process where X number of NFTs are put up for sale on a website. There\u2019s countdown timers and all \u2014 like waiting for a Black Friday sale. When the timer hits zero, you\u2019re supposed to click the button. Your crypto wallet gets deducted, and an NFT (e.g. a picture of a cute lion) appears in your wallet later.<\/p>\n

At 11:00:00 p.m., I hit the button but failed. It turns out 55,000 people around the world were trying to buy 10,000 NFTs at exactly the same time. The project sold out in less than three\u00a0seconds<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Nine hours later, I woke up to see the NFTs already being traded in marketplaces. Minimum price at that point was 60 SOL. Buy-in price was 1 SOL (~USD 120). Meaning technically you could have made 60x your money \u2014 turning USD 120 into USD 7,200 within a few hours.<\/p>\n

I estimate my failure to get the NFTs was a timing thing. Milliseconds. Maybe microseconds. The difference between me and a 60x (paper) gain was how quickly I tapped the button on my laptop.<\/p>\n

(p.s. There are big risks to investing\/speculating in NFTs. I can only say I jumped into it with eyes wide open and a fixed amount of capital \u2014 capital I\u2019m willing to 100% lose. Assuming you\u2019re new to crypto, please start with something \u201cboring\u201d like\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a> first.)<\/p>\n

<\/span>Is absurdity the new normal?<\/span><\/h2>\n

If an overnight 60x gain sounds absurd to you, I agree. Actually, multiple things here are absurd:<\/p>\n