Crypto why wait 9 years to lose half your money

With inflation at 7.5%, you lose half your money in 9 years. The only way to outperform that consistently, that I have found, is crypto. Just this year I've already lost half my money.

This is a screenshot of a viral Twitter tweet that makes a sarcastic, humorous joke about inflation and cryptocurrency investing. The tweet starts by explaining that at 7.5% inflation, the average person loses half the value of their money over 9 years. It then claims the only consistent way to outperform this inflation is cryptocurrency, with the punchline that the author has already lost half of their money invested in crypto in just one year. The joke twists the common pro-crypto argument that crypto beats inflation into a funny punchline about extreme crypto volatility and sudden investment losses.

The original tweet was posted by Twitter user @rcm____ on February 13, 2022. This meme was reposted to 9Gag, and has been widely shared across social media as a joke about cryptocurrency investment losses.