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[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 140 points 4 weeks 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 64 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 55 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 23 points 4 weeks 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 6 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

In December 2019, short guano futures

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Research gourd futures in 2020

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Bro that was a crazy year for gourd futures

[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 3 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 41 points 4 weeks 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 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

More than enough for 3 lifes

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 20 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 25 points 4 weeks 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 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 10 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, it's a bit of an understatement.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

You did indeed. My bad.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 7 points 4 weeks 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.