I'm suspicious when I hear that more than one person to committed suicide. When there's a child involved in the parents' "suicide"...

rightly so, according to the second paragraph police suspect the husband poisoned wife and child.

This is terrible - the thing about cryptocurrency, as opposed to traditional investments (or just banks), is it's extremely rigid, which means if you misplace a digit, you can lose a lot of stuff. I would guess that you shouldn't really expect to get out much more, in traditional currency terms, than you put in, in traditional currency terms (and, stuck on Earth, what else is there). Imho cryptology has it's place in the privacy and security realm, so the real use case for playing with these things is as training to do work in that area (obviously feel free to disagree).

Sidenote: Given the types of people that are traditionally familiar with public key use (journalists, linux users, etc.), and weird tax situations these highly fluctuating, unregulated type things might create, sometimes I wonder if cryptocoins might be a tool used by unscrupulous governments or such to knock-off opponents (certainly not in this case, but given that it's a global thing, it could be anyone... ).

That seems a bit extreme.

Each of us has some small responsibility in this, call it karma if you will.

These outcomes highlight the importance of telling the truth rather than promoting ideas that are in our selfish best interests.

Jordan Peterson has some excellent talks about this - https://youtu.be/EfEK-Pmi7v0

> Each of us has some small responsibility in this

How am I responsible for this?

Indra’s Net connects us all, especially in meme-space.

We grow or diminish memes based on the fuel we give them.

BitCoin is not an investment. It is speculative baseball card trading and its harder to keep safe from theft than baseball cards. This is the truth as I see it.