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Last week a friend whom I had always considered fairly sensible told me he needed a side hustle, and had decided to start day trading as it looked easy. After expelling half a double espresso through my nose, I asked where he had got that impression from. He explained that he had seen several videos explaining the process on Instagram and YouTube, and there was clearly nothing to it. Two days later, he told me that he had been on a dating website and exchanged phone numbers with someone. The person soon tried to persuade him to sign up to a trading platform, and suggested that cryptocurrencies were looking especially promising. The bitcoin has now finally dropped, and he promised me he would be more careful in future. But his experiences are an…