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in 2002, buy 100 btc, live comfortably as a millionaire in the present. don't have to sweep floors for nazi nasa
In 2002 buy apple or google stock then use that money to buy bitcoin.
In October 2001, short all of the major US airlines.
Why wouldn't you do that in August? It didn't take a genius to do this after 9/11
I'm guessing they're European and thus misread the date as November 9th.
In December 2019, short guano futures
Research gourd futures in 2020
Bro that was a crazy year for gourd futures
Are you European? 9/11 was in September, because American dates.
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.
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
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.
More than enough for 3 lifes
In 2002 there were no bitcoins. But there were Epstein island parties
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.
No, it literally didn't exist until 2008, and even then only conceptually for another year.
That's why I said it didn't really take off until 2010.... As in people started to actually trade it for actual goods.
Well, it's a bit of an understatement.
Well, that's a bit pedantic.
Only a bit. I've been trying to tone it down.
It technically didn’t exist until 2009. Before that it was a white paper.
Yes, which is why I said "conceptually" for the time between the original paper and the first implementation.
You did indeed. My bad.
Hey, it took him a while to do both, he was a busy guy!
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.