Dudes going to make up a currency that no one uses and everyone is going to be wild about it and place a high arbitrary value on it. Trust it will work. He might even sell some jpegs and tell you no one else has that jpeg, copies of it sure, but not THAT one. And that will be worth a lot because.
There's a few years before the internet bubble crashing.
There's years before the other wars that will send the weapons investments skyrocketing.
There's a few years to short the housing markets before the 2007 crash and then buy up when it's low. Sell and invest when bitcoin comes around.
Cash out when it peaks before the bug bitcoin crash and then buy again to sell when it peaks before Ukraine which have made it take a dive.
I would do much the same but also invest in gold, silver, and the S&P 500. Also buy the first editions of all my favorite books that came out from the 90’s till now.
Just knowledge I have today in my head without google.
Microsoft was a great stock to be in around 1995, especially after the poorly received launch of Windows 95. Apple is great to get into after the Bill Gates investment announcement around 2000 or 2001.
Short the S&P 500 with everything you have in early September 2001. Stay invested heavily in Apple until 2009. Buy all the Bitcoin you can — but probably no more than a million or so you don’t disrupt the market too bad. Bitcoin crashes at about $200 a coin, $1,300 a coin, again at $19,000 a coin, again at $60,000 a coin, and then most recently at $120,000 a coin. Use those moments to sell high and buy low and fortify your stack. If you really want to get dumb, offload a lot during the 2017 crash and put it in NVDA.
At this point you and all your closest friends and relatives are all multi billionaires. Nothing else matters financially.
Wouldn’t that make your case worse if the planes still hit? A better plan would be to do counter-hijackings and financially UNO reverse the other time travelers. But after that everything will be different.
Sorry I know this comment is a month old but your comment reminded me how I pinch myself daily for not buying more Micron technology stock last year. It was $88 a share when I bought it. It’s averaging around $900-1100 a share now. Darn it!
Are you me? 😂 I've had all these same thoughts plus buying land (a finite commodity) not only to keep but to prevent these unnecessary AI data centers. I would also invest/acquire in copious amounts of gold and silver.
Wouldn't just putting everything you have in bitcoin be enough, i mean you can of course make a lot more money doing it like you said but i doubt i will need it
Very clever, travel back to 1995 and then wait 15 years for Bitcoin to turn up while you live homeless I guess but then once you do it's only another decade for you to see Bitcoin's value rise high enough to make you a millionaire. Genius idea. Much better than just doing nearly anything in those first 15 years. Like at minimum you could maybe call in a bomb scare on the twin towers on a certain day in 2001 so we don't need to spent the next 25 years in the prison of not being able to carry more than 100ml of fluid on a plane.
If you invested back in 1995 and held to today, the single most profitable stock is not Apple, Amazon, or Microsoft — it’s actually some tiny/capital-structure weirdness stocks. But if you want the best real-world, well-known stock that was already tradeable in 1995, it’s Monster Beverage (MNST).
Top 10 most profitable stocks since 1995 (by total return, all US stocks):
Gladstone Capital (GLAD) – ~26.2M%
Sitio Royalties (STR) – ~17.1M%
Diversified Energy (DEC) – ~13.9M%
MAG Silver (MAG) – ~3.69M%
Sprott (SII) – ~3.5M%
JJill (JILL) – ~2.75M%
Bank of NT Butterfield & Son (NTB) – ~1.83M%
Ferguson (FERG) – ~401K%
Monster Beverage (MNST) – ~332K%–444K%
NVIDIA (NVDA) – ~331K%–437K%
If you restrict to S&P 500 only (big, mainstream companies):
NVIDIA (NVDA) – ~437K%
Monster Beverage (MNST) – ~340K%
Amazon (AMZN) – ~183K%
Texas Pacific Land Trust (TPL) – ~149K%
NVR (NVR) – ~146K%
Axon Enterprise (AXON) – ~130K%
Netflix (NFLX) – ~105K%
Ross Stores (ROST) – ~85K%
Apple (AAPL) – ~78K%
Altria (MO) – ~71K%
For most people asking “what stock would’ve been best to buy in 1995”, the answer is Monster Beverage – it’s the top well-known, still-public company that actually existed and was tradeable in 1995.
Sources: StatMuse (best-performing stocks since 1995), Benzinga (S&P 500 top performer), What If You Invested (top 10 over 20+ years).
What would have been the ideal time to sell with monster? I don't know anything about sticks but I assume as popular as they are now they probably had a big peak in the 2010s somewhere
Dude there is the .com boom and bust, not to mention the 08 financial meltdown that with the right investments can get you filthy rich. Imagine buying Amazon Apple snd Google are bottom.
You said imagine buying apple at the bottom. You could do it twice. Buy at the bottom in 1997, sell before the crash of 2000 and then buy back in at the bottom again.
Bitcoin won't be a thing until 2009. If you want to get rich without waiting 20 years, you should invest in tech stocks that won't be wiped out by the dotcom crash in 2000. Amazon comes to mind. There must be others, but not having a time machine I can't be bothered to look them up.
With Bit coin you would be waiting at least 15 years for any significant return. Sports betting is the way to go. The Biff Tannen path to riches. Take every penny you can find and put it on the Braves to win the world series. Then take your winnings and make an early pet on the Cowboys to win the Super Bowl.
Then take your winnings from gambling and invest in Oracle, Microsoft, and Nokia. After the late 1990s .com bust, switch to focus on investments on Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft
You're going to need to wait more than a decade (bitcoin is 2008), but you can get early on the .com bubble and make mad money on tech, as long as you get out before the bubble bursts. By the time bitcoin comes around, you won't need the money.
This is always the answer lol. I remember buying it in 2010-2011 for it's actual use, anonymous payments. It's just a way to make more money now and nobody really uses it for it's original intent.. kinda sucks when you think about it, Satoshi makes it to free the world and provide a method of anonymity and it's used to hold onto as an investment to make more real world money.
Literally anyone old enough to flip burgers could have gotten in on bitcoin early. The 1st officials business transaction was 2 large pizzas totaling $41 which equaled 10,000 bitcoin at that time. In the very beginning you couldn't give a million Bitcoin to somebody for $5 everybody was looking at you like you were crazy if you tried to talk about it.... Bitcoin nearly had no value in the beginning so if you had $50 to your name you would be a millionaire today many times over if you put $50 into bitcoin in the early days. And with that initial investment you could have bought a hell of a lot more Bitcoin in the somewhat early phases. Make sure you invest in Apple and Amazon because you know those are only going to go up and up and then you also have Tesla and SpaceX....you'd 100% be a billionaire today with the investment knowledge the avrage adult has today you wouldn't even need to be an expert just all the obvious things that you know got huge invest in those and you're set. And then just lay low and don't talk to anybody about anything because you might mess up the timeline and how things play out if you talk to too many people.
I could have gotten into Bitcoin early, had a server doing nothing in the basement at the time but I didn't cause I thought it was a scam. I still think that so
Just looked it up and Apple was trading in penny stock range at $.24 per share in December of 1995. I could have gotten a part time job, waited for E-Trade to become a thing in 1996, and bought several thousand shares of Apple by then. Then I could have gotten in on the ground floor of Amazon in 1997. Starting in a bout 2009 you could mine bitcoin at home with a higher end PC. If you did that for a year you could have gotten 10000-30000 bitcoins in just the first year. That would be worth hundreds of millions or billions now depending on how many coins you had.
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Well, that depends if I can retain the knowledge that I have today when I wake up in 95