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[–] Thyrian@ttrpg.network 79 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago
  • Zoom and GameStop stock.
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Yeah, get into Bitcoin at the peak investment age of ten.

Edit: JFC y'all, I'm middle-aged.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried being older? Bitcoin would be a 21+ problem for me!

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I'm already older, I was talking to that guy

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If your family had a PC at that time absolutely. Just wait for the first inklings and start mining. It was way easier at the start. You'd be able to get several thousands pretty easy. Maybe you get some visa gift cards as a kid for Christmas, dump em in there. Or even just go to any store and use your allowance to buy one. Then sell at the peak. EZPZ

[–] psud@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At ten you might have a computer that can mine a couple of hundred bit coin

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Were there any DOS programs for mining Bitcoin a couple decades before Bitcoin even existed?

[–] psud@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

You were the one positing the idea of Bitcoin at age 10. A 10 year old in 2010 would likely have a suitable computer

[–] shani66@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you can do that. Bitcoin is anonymous and you could earn it relatively easy when it first came out. If you want to get real fucked up with it you could make even more by appealing to those early black markets and use your age as a cover, but that's risk.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 1 points 11 months ago

You generally need a credit card to do that.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

At the start all you needed was access to any computer. Mine for an hour and come out with some bitcoin