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[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 131 points 1 day ago (4 children)

in 2002, buy 100 btc, live comfortably as a millionaire in the present. don't have to sweep floors for nazi nasa

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In 2002 buy apple or google stock then use that money to buy bitcoin.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 50 points 1 day ago (4 children)

In October 2001, short all of the major US airlines.

[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 3 points 11 hours ago

Are you European? 9/11 was in September, because American dates.

[–] EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't you do that in August? It didn't take a genius to do this after 9/11

[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 2 points 11 hours ago

I'm guessing they're European and thus misread the date as November 9th.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 23 hours ago

In March 2020 buy anything related to travel or leisure or fast food.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

In December 2019, short guano futures

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Research gourd futures in 2020

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Bro that was a crazy year for gourd futures

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

you'd be waiting several years. bitcoin wasn't "invented" until '08. but you're on the right track. by '09, you could have got 100btc for lunch money. sold today it would give you more than enough to live on.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

If you started mining on the day the network launched you could have had thousands of bitcoins without even buying any. Mining difficulty was really low before FPGA miners (and later ASIC miners) were created

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

too much work. may 21, 2010. just be the guy that buys some hungry guy a couple pizzas. you'd have 10k btc for like $25 worth of pizza.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 14 hours ago

More than enough for 3 lifes

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In 2002 there were no bitcoins. But there were Epstein island parties

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep.... Bitcoin didn't really take off until 2010. I had a buddy who was an early adopter and had mined/bought hundreds of thousands of coins at one point. Spent it all on the silk road, he always used to say it was just a way to turn electricity into drugs.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, it literally didn't exist until 2008, and even then only conceptually for another year.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's why I said it didn't really take off until 2010.... As in people started to actually trade it for actual goods.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Well, it's a bit of an understatement.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Only a bit. I've been trying to tone it down.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It technically didn’t exist until 2009. Before that it was a white paper.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, which is why I said "conceptually" for the time between the original paper and the first implementation.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

You did indeed. My bad.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 20 hours ago

Hey, it took him a while to do both, he was a busy guy!

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 7 points 22 hours ago

You could travel back to 2009 and impersonate Satoshi Nakamoto. There are already conspiracy theories that Nakamoto is a time traveler because he did what a time traveler might do. He anonymously created Bitcoin, and then he disappeared. He has tens of billions of dollars of bitcoin sitting there unused. Or maybe it's just waiting until he gets back to his time.