Friends Bitcoin Obsession Backfires: AITA for Teasing His Investment?

Some friendships are built on shared snacks and dumb jokes, not financial doom scrolling. But in this friend group, Boris brought Bitcoin into everything, like it was a personality trait he just could not turn off.

It started a few months ago when he bought some bitcoins, then he kept dropping “the future” talk into every conversation. He tried to recruit the whole crew, hinted everyone was missing out, and even attempted to gift Bitcoin for Christmas during their secret santa. After the price crashed, the group asked how he was doing, and OP laughed and compared it to “monopoly money,” which only made Boris spiral harder. Then he admitted he had been taking equity out of his house to buy more.

Now OP is stuck between “I was joking” and “he might actually be in trouble,” and the group chat is officially not the same.

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A few months ago my friend 'Boris' bought some bitcoins. And since then he's been really eager to bring up his bitcoins in conversation.

He's said it's the future, tried to get everyone in the group to buy bitcoins, and even insinuated that we are missing out on massive profits if we don't buy bitcoins. Basically everyone he's said this to has said "mate you are going to lose your money" and he has remained persistent.

He tried to gift us bitcoin for Christmas as part of a secret santa thing we were doing. He's all around a nice guy but something about this bitcoin thing has made him go bonkers and the other day the price of bitcoin crashed and so we asked him how his bitcoins are going.

He looked at the chart and was horrified and I did laugh at him and say this is why you don't buy monopoly money. Some jokes were made mocking typical crypto bro replies such as "buy the dip, its going to the moon" etc.

He didn't find it funny at all and then admitted he had been taking equity out of his house to buy bitcoins and I thought it was also a joke but he was serious and now I really don't know what to do. He's left the group chat and I don't want him to be in financial ruin.

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This also echoes the AITA story where someone confronted their boss over an unrealistic workload.

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When Boris tried to turn secret santa into a crypto handoff, the jokes were funny for about five minutes, until nobody could tell where the line was anymore.

The moment the Bitcoin price crashed, OP and the others did what friend groups do, they asked for the receipts, and Boris showed them a chart that looked like a horror movie.

After OP mocked him with “monopoly money” and crypto-bro lines like “buy the dip,” Boris went from annoyed to fully shaken.

The real gut punch came when Boris admitted he was pulling equity from his house, and suddenly OP is terrified the teasing helped push him into financial ruin.

We're curious to hear your perspective. Share your thoughts in the comments.

Nobody wants to be the reason their friend starts selling their house for “the moon.”

Before you judge Boris, read the AITA post about requesting time off before a major deadline and returning to lingering resentment.