The other day something very happy occurred to me. I ran into a fellow poker player. He is a used car sales man and we know each other from the poker room. It's not like we are close friends but we tend to talk when we see each other in the poker room.

Back when bitcoin traded at $1400

Earlier this year while playing poker the bitcoin discussion came up. This is something to likely occur to anyone that happens to sit at a poker table with me :-).

Probably because he respects me as a player he seemed to listen to me. Usually I do try to hammer two points: Firstly Bitcoin is here to change everything in a profound way and may go all the way into the million $ evaluation. And Secondly this shit is wild, volatile and 50% crashes happen every other month and 70-80% crashes happen regularly because we constantly are in a bubbles.

Earlier this year I used the bubbles to predict that btc may go toward 2-10k this year in a video in 2017 alone. I shared this with my friend and he watched it.

The result was he bought some bitcoin.

Of course after he bought some, the price crashed. From $1400 to $900 is quite big hit, if you are used to stocks or cash.

Wife: Why do you listen to a gambler

And his wife freaked out and started yelling at him. I remember seeing him in the poker room and telling me that he had bought some and is stuck a bit. I told him to stay and wait for the price to go back up. I had no idea he had run into issues with his wife because of me.

He did not sell.

How much did you buy?

The other day we met again in the poker room. He looked at me and said. "You must be rich now."

"Umm.. what are you talking about" I mumbled .

"The bitcoin price!"

I explained that I clearly do not feel rich just yet, though very much richer and happier. Then I remembered that he told me he had bought some earlier in the year and asked: "Did you not buy some"

"Yes."

"Do you still have them?"

"Yes."

"How much did you buy?"

"5 bitcoins" he said with a really big grin on his face.

Holy shit I thought. That is a lot of cheese for a used car sales man that likes to play $100 tournaments for fun.

Happiness!

I grabbed his shoulders and shook him and around like a little kid. "That's like 25K profit." I whispered in his ear.

"I know" he said with a huge grin on his face.

I was really happy because I noticed that I may have had a little impact on this persons life. It was really funny how I was quite emotional about his money, when the recent rise has also caused my portfolio to gain some strength. But somehow impacting other people has a different kind of meaning.

Anyway that was a great day for me and I thought I would share.

I have certainly also seen many poker folks lose some money by investing into ICOs just as they started to tumble and not holding bitcoin because they are too boring.

Not everybody is making a killing and as such it is important to cherish the successes that do happen.

Have you ever made an impact on someone in crypto? Would love to hear your stories also.