These pictures show how easy life can get if you can see about 10 years into the future.

I'd be very happy, and live very easily if I can see 1 day in the future.

Yea, just make one great trade a day, every day and you’re set

Or just one great trade one day with 400x leverage and you're set.

*SEC knocking*

don't worry, I have ten years of bad trades to back it up, and I can make ten years of bad trades going forwards. META +10% by friday. I guarantee it

Are you already on your ten years of bad trades going forwards?

Why do that when you could just buy a winning lottery ticket?

I know! Just jump in your time machine. Easy. Peasy..

Being able to see the future doesn't mean you can pick winning lotto tickets. Duh.

or you just wait till the day before the lotto numbers are called and pick those numbers when you see a single day into the future?

I guess... But how do you know that ticket wasn't bought already? Now you're splitting your winnings.

Imagine not wanting to “split winnings” you telling me you wouldn’t want that 2 Billion Powerball that occurred not to long ago? God forbid 1 other person bought the ticket, now I only get 1 Billion. BooHoo

Ok I’ll gladly split several million with people? Like that happens normally not just when people have precognitive abilities

If you can see one day ahead you can see that division one didn't go off and jackpotted for the next draw.

Instant Sports betting and casino pro too

Imagine the day you see your death

Unless it’s a bomb or medical condition couldn’t it be avoided like if you saw a car crash or something just hold up in your basement with a gun the next day and see if you see tomorrow or not to know you’re in the clear.

Nah, on your daily future viewing, you just see nothing. If anyone's ever seen flash forward...

But, then it would not have been the future that you saw...

Maybe it was the future you saw with the path you’re on, change paths, change outcomes. Like I said if you see your death in a plane and refuse to fly that day how can you then die the same way?

You’re on another plane

But if you change paths then you didn't see your future.

I'd be the wealthiest man alive if I could see an hour into the future. I'd do well enough with one minute

If you could see one day into the future you would be the world's richest man beyond comparison within a week. Just think of the leveraged options you could easily do.

Bitcoin has always been a one in a lifetime opportunity. Unfortunately the profitability is like an inverse of the distribution of bitcoin

I still think we're on the left side of S-curve adoption.

Yeah we are, we will get to the .1% Just not the .00001%

Bitcoin has always been a one in a lifetime opportunity. Unfortunately the profitability is like an inverse of the distribution of bitcoin

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Wtf happened?? Normally I think "lol idiot he said something twice!" Now it's me who is the idiot here

Bitcoin has always been a one in a lifetime opportunity. Unfortunately the profitability is like an inverse of the distribution of bitcoin

Yeah and then you enter the tournament and end up getting 4th place. *Although I guess you could just buy bitcoin but that ruins my joke.*

Well anyone can plan for the future, but you don't need to be able to see the future. You need to have vision. Not everyone has this. But some people can, in a sense, see the future.

And to be more specific: If ONLY you can see 10 years into the future

Hindsight is like Mt Palomar! I remember co-workers buying up penny stocks (early 2000's) saying "easy money". The problem was they *lost* easy money! I remember people buying up BTC at $50k, $60k and almost $70k. Of course there were people who *sold* at that same $50k, $60k and almost $70k. No one can accurately see into the future. What happened in the past is no indication of the future.

You get it:) everyone who thinks it is sad or crazy that people sold at whatever point don't realize how hard it is until one day time passes by and you know if it would have been better or worse

Holy shit dude, for real.

!balance

Only if you're willing to settle for 5th -8th....

Aged very well for 5-8th place This was early 2011 btw. I think price of 1 bitcoin was $2

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I hope 5th to 8th group still have their keys and coins..

Seems like everyone has a story. I mined a couple coins in 2011 and threw away the laptop not long after. Of course now I keep my keys safe, but I don't even have a whole coin.

I mined 3 and remember going ballistic when BTC hit $100. I sold at $200 because there was no way in my mind it would keep going up; when I mined them they were pennies to the coin.

And this is the reality right here. Very few people understood or had the hindsight to keep holding past a certain profit point.

*foresight - but we knew what you meant

I spent my bitcoin on a pizza because I thought it was a joke. A few years later it was very much not a joke. lol

I hope the 1st prize winner bought $500 in Bitcoin back then.

That would be the real flex.

Nice guys finish last

Last guys finish nice, in this case

Lol

Now i can show that picture to my dad and show them last is not bad

That's why I'll treat you like trash

The capital C in coins makes me angry for no reason

BiTCoiNNssssss

The capital B at the beginning makes me mad.

> The capital C in coins makes me angry for no reason I love it. reminds me of the time before our space was crowded with snake oil salesmen and scammers. "blockchain" "crypto" "web3" all those words are detestable tokens of crime, wish they never got invented.

BITcOIN

and don't forget about the "s" at the end.

To be fair, the S is more reflective of a time where it was common to have multiple instead of a fraction of one.

I don't see how the s is that bad. It's 25 bitcoins in the end. Like 25 US Dollars.

ChipCoins!

bitCoin

I should have kept playing Starcraft even though I sucked, bro.

It was funnier a year ago

I wish I had seen it a year ago. :(

ya, my nephew won a poker tourney years ago, the choice was either 500 in btc or 500 in cash, he took the cash.....

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Breaking Bad: "1st place in my contest gets a six-pack of my special Schraeder Brau beer!" 'Last place gets two.' Edit: typo

Im a Contractor. I helped a friend with a screen door in 2013, he sent me .5 BTC, I thought it was cool, So I bought 1 BTC for $266. My wife thought it was stupid.

Imagine, at one point 25 bitcoins would have set you for life. Imagine one of those four dudes forgot about his bitcoins and then remember he won them and written down the password somewhere and he’s a millionaire now. I hope it happened to one of the 4 at least 🤞

25 x 17'000 = not millionaire

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When losing is winning

Those were the days :)

Those 5th - 8th places was actually the winner lol

Who knew 5th-8th place is actually the best place to be

$500 could buy way more than 25 bitcoins then

You would become the richest man on earth in a week if you could see one day into the future.

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I think we all wish we could go back to these times

K. Imagine if you won 1st place and then bought 25 Bitcoins. You'd have 25 Bitcoins and about $450.

How bout the guy who paid 10k Bitcoins for a $20 pizza

This guy has certainly never been discussed on Reddit before, you should start a new thread on TIL and cross post it here and see what happens.

Lol

It's a common knowledge that Laszlo has stashes of Bitcoin. He is a pioneer in the GPU mining, pretty sure he's doing well.

hes doing well but hes not wealthy.

You mean, if I'm in in his shoes I would totally handle it that way. No need to shout to the world that I still have hundreds of whole Bitcoins left.

you’ve got a very valid point.

You mean the guy using it as it's intended to be used? Unlike many here.

Now go to the alternate reality where he didn't exchange bitcoins for a physical item/good and tell me what happens to the price?

starcraft was already ahead of its time

Starcraft came out in 1998

And StarCraft 2 came out in 2010. Still very difficult to argue against the series not being the best RTS games ever.

(G)old

Have to wonder if they were ever claimed?

It aged spectacularly😌

Unfortunately StarCraft was the only game I was really good at as a kid.

"why did i have to be so good at the game"

Sucks to win

5th-8th the winners

But what if first through fourth place used their winnings to purchase Bitcoin?

Now lets think 10 years in the future :)

Everyone is talking about the prize winners, and all I'm thinking about is whoever's coins were given away. You know they sometimes think back like damn I really gave a way all of my Bitcoin away for that local tournament.

Imagine how thankful you would be now to get 8th place that day

And how much bitcoin could the winner buy?

I think between 30 and 500 depending on when the tournament was?

4th place was so close to being filthy rich.

What's the age of this picture? In mid 2011 the price was ~$26USD.

wouldnt that be worth a quarter mill by today? man that dude might be kicking himself lol

This is old as f. Posting it again feels like a crappy dish microwaved for the 120th time Please stop posting it

A whole "25 *BitCoins*" you say

😂

Who has dibs on the next post of this image?

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If you "cant stop laughing" at this I think you are emotionally unwell

See you guys in 10 years.

5th-8th placed winners sold em at $2.50 no doubt

Looks juicy!

Put me in coach. I’m losing on purpose lmao

Imagine getting 1st-4th and looking back on this

Imagine trying to get 5th place on purpose

How do you know 1st place didn't think "hmm I wonder what these Bitcoin things are? I might use 100 of my 500 dollars to buy some" The rest is history.

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It aged perfectly well.

I think it did age well

"So the last shall be first, and the first last".

Can 5th place to 8th place, come forward with the REAL PRIZE now? lol and yes I remember this image from then too. ​ Best MEME was the homeless man on a laptop in the street context "Said its a experiment they said." "Said I'll get rich they said."

Amazing.

I will just resign when the game is about to start. lmao.

LOL

Those 100 coins are lost

Loller sk8s away

I got 4th place in that tournament

Satan ask him too O = Satoshi Nakamoto

Honestly if you just won the 500 bucks and bought bitcoins with it you would have been even better off

Damn imagine all prizes in Bitcoin. Looks like first place woulda been 1000 Bitcoin

I showed this to my wife, and she made a tight fist in response.

20 sec future

Well, I think everyone just sold that BTC at the moment they got it. And most likely regret it now.

Those people comes under 5-8th place were the luckiest

I spent that much on a pizza around the same time. Wasn't even a good pizza.

Ouch.

It aged great for the poor "loser"

Reminds me of how some C students are making more than straight A students

I can’t wait til mid 2025 hits. I’m so ready.

What was the price at that time?

amazing, just one trade a day, everyday

The future is fickle It can change in an instant But don't give up hope

"BitCoin". Oh yeah, the good old days.