• Serinus@lemmy.world
      18·
      2 months ago

      You buy 5 bitcoins for $450 each in 2016. It’s what you can afford. You sell them for $10,000 each in 2018, timing it decently just before a bigger drop.

      Congrats on your $48k.

      • Contextual Idiot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        Look at this youngin, turning 18 in 2016. Enjoy your knees and shoulders while you can.

        2009-2010, you hear about this “Bitcoin” thing for the first time. You remember some old fart telling you about it years ago, but you had no idea what they were talking about and assumed they had mental problems. You decide to download it and start mining it, it doesn’t hurt anything. It just uses your CPU to mine them. You let it run and quickly forget about it. Eventually, you get tired of it slowing your computer down. You have a few thousand coins by now, so you shut the miner down and put your wallet somewhere safe. Then you forget all about it, until about 2021…

        • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 months ago

          That was me. Around 2009 I remember first hearing about it and trying to buy it and quickly realizing it wasnt that easy and seemed sketcky so i just said whatever… i wonder what I would have done if I did.

          My 18 was also way before (2000) this so i hope i remember it for that long. And honestly life was good up until 2009 so i wouldnt really change any of that anyway. 2009 on could have used some improvements…

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zipEnglish
    262·
    2 months ago

    first choice:
    PURSUE NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

    runner up:
    YOU AIN’T MALE

    third place:
    ATTENTION DEFICIT: REAL

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      81·
      2 months ago

      With you on 1 and 3, not so much 2…

      When I was 18 ADHD was something kids had and you outgrew it. I probably couldn’t have been evaluated then. So nuclear engineering it is.

    • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
      4·
      2 months ago

      2 was my first thought too, but maybe its better that I didnt had my egg cracking while I was still living with my parents (the funny thing is, that I still had my egg cracking while staying at my parents place between semesters) and going to school.

      • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
        3·
        2 months ago

        My egg cracked at 11, but enbys were almost entirely unknown in Texas back then so I masked so hard that I was basically living in denial. My 18yo self wouldn’t need gender validation, it’ll find kindred spirits for that in college, but “Colorado, not California” might push up my transition date by a decade, 'cuz my first attempt to escape Texas didn’t go well.

      • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zipEnglish
        42·
        2 months ago

        Oh I’m not a girl either.

        I’m an it: a THING. :3

        The big revelation i had in recent years is that although i may not know what i am, i know what I’m not.

        I wasted decades living like a fish who was tricked into thinking its life’s purpose was to climb trees.

        I could have spared myself a great deal of inconvenience and confusion if i had realized sooner that I’m asexual and genderless because divesting of those labels has drastically reduced the discomfort of my existence in that i no longer feel bizarre self-inflicted pressure to fulfill archetypical roles toward which i never related and which I never understood in the first place.

        A lot of social issues i had came from externalization of internal dysphoria. The deep, overwhelming disgust and discomfort I felt when merely even conceptualizing masculinity that purports to be ‘mine’, let alone any actual participation in such an identity. Being in “boy” spaces, being present for “boy” events, every stereotype and statistically emergent pattern associated with maleness, all of it–ALL OF IT–made my skin crawl.

        The utter revulsion that overwhelmed me regarding masculinity spilled over into how I treated others, and that absolutely sucked. It’s not their fault they had an intrinsic understanding of themselves that felt intuitive and made sense to them…

        …

        And also even though I don’t particularly feel interested in pretending to be a girl either i know i definitely would be more comfortable in a more androgynous body. I even want bottom surgery, not for anyone else’s sake but because it feels less wrong conceptually.

        (Not holding my breath though)

        I just sometimes think back to the 90s and wonder if i could’ve had more room in my head for more useful considerations if I hadn’t been preoccupied with an intrinsic inability to embody societal expectations and roles that, it turns out, had nothing to do with me. If i didn’t waste so much effort trying to care about something that i hated and turned out to not matter at all, goodness, i could’ve known myself so much better, been at least somewhat more comfortable in my own head if not in my own skin.

        If future me had conveyed the message convincingly in just those three words that no good would come from struggling to participate with that miserable dead-end charade… maybe i could have better focused on things that did matter.

        • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
          1·
          2 months ago

          Your sex is not an identity (inherently, at least- people can make it part of their identity).

          There’s different contexts for the word (chromosomal, phenotypical, etc), but generally speaking the average of all of them is what you are described as in a biological sense, gender aside.

          I’m still running into new identities, expressions, and interpretations, but so far everything I’m aware of holds at least that much in common.

          Am I missing something? Genuine question.

    • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      when Bitcoin was $0.01 could you even buy it with dollars? and then there was the mtgox hack so even if you did, if you didn’t self custody you would lose it.

      • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        It’s two words, everything else is numbers and a symbol, I’d argue I’m well within the limits of the rules to add another word if I wanted.

        • warbond@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          Saying it out loud you’d have to reduce it, right? But my real problem with the message is how do you know when to sell the bitcoin?

          • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
            11·
            2 months ago

            The rules were three words, no caveats, I’m choosing to be subjective with the interpretation. I’m taking the “There ain’t no rules that say a dog can’t play basketball” approach.

            Buy $100 worth at $0.01, sell that at $1000, get the fuck out of dodge.

    • pulsey@feddit.org
      11·
      2 months ago

      what says that you wouldnt have sold it e.g. when the price doubled? like from $10 to $20?

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        2 months ago

        18yo me would be living in the early 2000s; any of these would set me up for life: “Bitcoin hits $100K” “Buy Tesla shares” - this also would work for any of the big brands Netflix/Nvidia etc.

        But this one would probably change my life in a much more meaningful way: “Don’t lose her.”

      • toddestan@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        You’d be better off saying something like “sell bitcoin $125k” (we’ll just assume “$125k” would count as one word). That you should then buy it when it’s cheap would be implied.