{"id":48682,"date":"2021-09-01T13:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48682"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:40:18","slug":"reddit-user-angers-fiancee-by-gifting-nft-as-engagement-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/reddit-user-angers-fiancee-by-gifting-nft-as-engagement-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit user angers fianc\u00e9e by gifting NFT as engagement ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Reddit user going by HandHoldingClub <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.rareddit.com\/r\/relationships\/comments\/pebtdk\\\">told<\/a> of a broken engagement over his cryptocurrency hobby.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>His girlfriend Jenna (a pseudonym), whom he has been dating for four years, is very particular about financial matters and insists on saving. Not long ago the couple had a conflict because HandHoldingClub lost a substantial portion of their joint savings in Dogecoin.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve recovered half of the lost assets using stock-market options, but then another setback followed. Jenna forced me to quit trading, but I\u2019m not giving up hope that we can grow our money through investing,\u201d the Reddit user said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Recently he found an NFT that, in his view, would appeal to Jenna because it had a meaning that was \u201cunderstandable to both of us\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spent almost all of my savings on it, because I believe the token\u2019s price could potentially rise to $1 million and we could buy a mansion with that money. I presented the NFT to her as an engagement ring.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>The girlfriend did not appreciate the gift, calling it \u201cselfish and stupid.\u201d HandHoldingClub asked the thread\u2019s commenters for help:<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to sell the NFT, because something like this only happens once in a lifetime, but I\u2019m not going to abandon my girlfriend. What should I do?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Respondents accused the post author of childish behaviour and ludomania.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSeriously? Your girlfriend has clearly made it clear that she doesn\u2019t like your crypto hobby, and you continue with it? By doing so you\u2019ve shown her that you\u2019re not the man to start a family with. You\u2019re not dependable; you don\u2019t respect her opinion,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Commenters also suggested selling the NFT immediately and buying a real ring with the proceeds to make amends with the fianc\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One user questioned the story&#8217;s authenticity and the existence of HandHoldingClub\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, finding a dating-subreddit post less than a year old posted by him in <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bumble\/comments\/jcpp11\/do_you_swipe_left_on_people_out_of_your_league\/\\\">the dating-subreddit post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>As reported in March, investor <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/reddit-user-loses-wife-after-refusing-to-sell-bitcoin-at-60000\">lost his wife after refusing to sell bitcoin at $60,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reddit user going by HandHoldingClub recounted a broken engagement over his cryptocurrency hobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1718,1213,1400],"class_list":["post-48682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-fun","tag-nft","tag-reddit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"26","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48684,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48682\/revisions\/48684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}