Yesterdays. I wish I can get back 5,000 days of my life
Edit: Holy shit!! This comment went crazy!!! Thank you guys for all the positive responses. And to the people who berated and hated. I hope you find peace lol jeez
I spent 111 BTC on a large pepperoni and sausage pizza and a 20oz Mountain Dew at a local pizza joint back when BTC was just getting off the ground as a usable currency. That pizza at today's exchange rate would have cost $6,816,110.40.
BTC has never been usable as a currency, much less in 2012. There's a story of a guy who "bought" a pizza for 5000 BTC, but even then he actually just paid some guy 5000 BTC to buy a pizza with real dollars for him.
1) Lots of places take BTC as payment, even more than back in 2017-2018 when it took off. It's entirely reasonable that a "local pizza joint" would experiment with this stuff.
2) It was 10.000 BTC and the guy wanted to prove that you can get physical goods in exchange for BTC. Which he got.
The guy that owned that pizza joint was super into computers and started accepting BTC after it started to gain a little traction as a currency. I still keep in touch with the guy on Twitter and he's a massive cryptobro now.
What are you talking about? People were buying Lamborghinis and other high end items using bitcoin as early as 2013 and making the news all the time. Dealerships, Rental firms, real estate and a whole bunch of other fields were very quick to start accepting bitcoin coin.
Ur username checks out 🤣 it’s ok tho ur lucky to be old, nowadays some of us youngsters don’t even live to see that happen :/ one can only wish to reach old age
If I understood correctly, they are giving back the amount of dollars they were worth back then, not actual bitcoins or even how much they would be worth now.
Step 1: Buy decentralized currency that's main feature is that it is secure without the need for risky financial institutions that can go under, taking your currency with it.
Step 2: Centralize said currency in a risky financial institution that can go under taking your currency with it.
i had 9500 saved up, was looking to buy bitcoin but the site looked sketchy and i had to link my bank account to it so i noped out. I think it was less than 10$ at the time lol
I remember when there were bots on Reddit that were straight up giving away Bitcoin as basically fancy upvotes people could give to each other since it was so worthless at the time. All you had to do was post a command under a comment for the bot to see.
A little later, Redditors would tip you Bitcoin Cash, which was pretty worthless. I was given $5 worth and then proceeded to upload it to some obscure exchange I've long forgotten about. Oh well.
my college roommates tried to talk me into bitcoin in 2013 but my ass was too broke. I couldn't even muster 50 bucks because i needed that money for food.
I have a tale of woe to tell you. I came across bitcoins as a newfangled toy. I started mining them and soon a had 8 bitcoins. But it was still a little effort for almost no return, so I stopped mining. Eventually, they creeped up a bit, then up a little higher to $12 a piece! Twelve bucks for these useless digits! But before I caught on, they crashed again. I was sure I missed out. They creeped up again, and when they hit $20, I pounced! I sold 7 coins for $20 each with a half a coin fee. These useless things that cost me cents, $140 profit for nothing!
And obviously you know where leads. I missed out on selling those coins for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I even lost the wallet that had that remaining half a coin left over. So don’t feel bad about not knowing they would peak at $73,000.
Nothing related to crypto. I’m just suggesting it as a way to get money quickly. I just checked bitcoin history though, it didn’t exceed $1000 until 2017 so op would have probably held on to them for a long time
It's not unique to crypto. Any asset is likely to lose value if the supply skyrockets, if suddenly everyone around the world tried to get rid of their US dollars, the US economy would be in crisis. The most unique part of crypto is that it would take much less activity to affect the price negatively, so slowly offloading would definitely be the best move.
Gawd I wish I had listened to some friends to get some back when. Theyre bitcoin millionaires right now lol. Even 100 bucks then wouldve gotten me a ton of money these days. Still think its a bubbel though and shady sh*t
wasn't meant to be an exhaustive list... but yes... it's a quick path to being a billionaire with a MegaMillions win and spreading out your investments to stay under the radar
What if you're already living in someone else's yesterday and that's why they're a billionaire? And if you tried to go back too, you'd just have to fight each other, changing the course of history.
Never go back in history to kill Hitler. If it could be done, it means you're just walking into certain death by trying because you lived that timeline and it was the one that played out in a world where time travel was possible meaning all time travellers failed the mission... OR it was the lesser of 2 evils because again, you lived that timeline and it was the one that played out in a world where time travel was possible and you changing that should make you fear the alternative timeline that time travellers chose not to choose.
Much better than bitcoin? There is almost no reason not to put all of the money into bitcoin if you're going to 2010. Basically nothing else would give you a bigger return by 2024. You would make a terrible time traveler.
While I like this idea, I wouldn't want to attract attention if others are also time traveling. It's why I would be mining bitcoin instead of buying, and why I would spread out my investments to avoid having a significant ownership stake that warrants public disclosure.
I've always thought that going back to the past doesn't change the element of randomness, so we can't guarantee the same future outcome.
That makes memorizing lottery numbers useless since it's random, but big ideas or inevitable progress would likely still come to pass. That means you'd still be filthy rich from crypto, Netflix, Tesla, Nvidia, real estate, etc.
All you’d have to do is grab some cash, set up a meeting and then show up to the location with cash, have that shady character off the internet take your money and hope that they sent it to your wallet.
If I could back, it'd be early in my junior year. But I'd probably switch majors and actually buckle the fuck down instead of barely skirting by. I'd also do the obvious investments, because I'd need another year and I'd rather not put that burden on my parents. And I could help my sister more with her own college. Also, having 14 more years to get in shape and learn more skills in my prime would be so nice.
It's kind of crazy to me that there are people well established in their careers right now who have never been of working age in a recession. Both the 2001 and 2008 recessions really messed with my career progression.
Part of me thinks I could go back and buy a fuck ton of bitcoin so I’d be set for life.
The other part of me knows I would never mentally survive secondary school and university all over again. I would most definitely eat a bullet over doing that again.
This would bring me back to a time when I was with what I believe as a soul mate. He passed away in 2011. I still miss him to this day. I’m now a mother of two, still with their dad…yet I still miss the one I lost.
That would give me 10 years back with my grandparents and at least six or seven of those years where they were healthy yeah I would take that in a heartbeat
That would honestly be perfect. The investments I would make, the personal decisions. I would have stayed in the military at least until I had my degree, not bought certain things, finished my degree far sooner and probably had a masters by now. So many mistakes, and so many easy solutions that I was too dumb to see at the time.
I’ll take that. My kiddo was still in high school and that year was rough, but my mama was still alive and I’d love to see her again—it was the year she started college.
That was one of the most fun years of my entire life. Graduated high school, kissed my first girl, went to some awesome parties. Had ALL of my best friends. Would ditch class to smoke weed in the woods. Knew we all were going to college together the following year. Got older siblings to buy beer. Had a group of beautiful girls that went on beach trips with us. Man... that year... was... really good. Im now 31.
This is perfect. My 20th birthday and 2 years before the crazy girlfriend that sold all my shit, kicked me out to be homeless and gave my cat away. I'll take it.
Incidentally that’s just the right spot to turn around the two biggest tactical errors of my adult life- dropping out of college and moving in with my now-ex. I met him Oct. 16, 2010. I would also like 5000 yesterdays, please. I want to go back to October 17 and delete his number and give myself a good talking to.
Huh. My 21st birthday. Went to dinner at a fancy steak place in downtown Chicago. My great aunt was still alive. She got pork chops, which I only remember because the waiter managed to drop a glass and it shattered all over her dinner. We were sitting next to some important football player (maybe the one that’s famous for going bald?) and he didn’t like us taking photos. My dad made the bar tender card me.
Unfortunately, knowledge isn't enough to be a billionaire. That, and you'd probably come out the other end with some sort of crippling psychological problems.
I think it'd be more like living in reverse. Say I went back to yesterday right now, well that's not a yesterday anymore that's today, but the day before that was still two days ago. But let's assume for your next yesterday you'd go to that yesterday. So they'd go June 25th, 24th, 23rd, etc back 5000 days. Then what? Do they relive those days in the correct order again (10000 days total) or do they go back to the original today?
Or more simply it might just be a two day time loop scenario, seeing as whatever day you just lived is yesterday, you'd be bouncing between two days the whole time. I just can't see a scenario where theyd drop someone 5000 days in the past and say "yep, this is yesterday"
But do you get to keep your "future" memory? Does reliving "yesterday" rewrite everything so the "present" day never really happened? If it does... at the end of those 5000 days (which you have have no idea you relived 5000 times), you would probably just end up back at present day and make the same wish again, repeating the cycle indefinitely.
In it for the social experience and simple pleasure of learning at that point. High school would be cake if I had the knowledge I have now. NVDA at $0.10 and knowing how to easily get in shape in a year, I'd be laughing my ass off every day
I don't. The reason for a high school diploma isn't about money, once you're rich. When I'm financially taken care of I want to do other things with life than lounge around with my money, because you go crazy if you have nothing to do but entertain yourself. As Covid demonstrated. It gets boring shockingly fast when you never have to work again. Especially at age 18? That's 60 years of pure recreation. You'd need at least one passion project to stay sane, and that needs education to do well.
If you gave me a billion dollars right now, after taxes, I'd pivot careers, but I'd still work in some capacity. Maybe not full time, but I'd definitely be doing something to stay engaged.
Edit: let me put it this way. I don't want to use money to solve literally all of my problems. I don't want to flaunt my wealth. I don't want to buy my way out of earning things. I do not want the life and luxury of the ultra wealthy, and I don't want any kind of notoriety or fame. So even if I had that money, I would use it to make my life secure and healthy, not luxurious and easy.
I don't want workarounds for education, I want to learn shit and earn a degree and use it to do a job well, and not take that job home with me.
I want to pay off the debts of myself, my family and friends, and a few more besides. Buy a few luxuries like concert and festival tickets, pay for tutoring and personal trainers and expensive healthcare to help me get over my PTSD faster, and then have some stipend of a few grand a month to cover rent and buy literally whatever I want, which isn't much. Then, hire someone to use the rest to build micro grids in developing countries or some shit.
I'm genuinely humble in my material wants and needs. This is my plan. I didn't care if there's ways to use money to bypass some things. I won't use them.
I think you could do all this with self-study to learn all the knowledge you need. You don't necessarily need to participate in the formal education and structured curriculums of high school. I agree with you though. Need to stay busy.
I don’t agree that it would get boring shockingly fast for everyone, but I do know what you mean. If I had infinite money, I’d love to jump around learning new languages.
If someone turned up with a time machine, put a gun to my head and told me I'm going back through my school years? I would tell them to empty the fucking clip.
the amount of bitcoin you would buy would change the market so much that it would never gain the popularity it did and you’d just have upteen million virtual coins.
1,000 bitcoin in January 2016 would cost you $435K. That's 0.0066% of the supply at the time. Hardly enough to alter the popularity. That would be worth $62,000,000 today.
Take part of the 5000 yesterdays and go back to a time you want to. Then save the rest to go back and fix anything else that gets messed up along the way.
Of course if it works like that, I want 5000 years.
I’d go back to and keep my friend from dying in an accident, start making a note of obscure investments that pay off quickly, etc.
Then secretly be a sort of protector for all my loved ones.
Bob finds out he has cancer too late to do anything about it? Go back and figure out a way to get Bob to go get tested sooner.
Jenny becomes paralyzed in a car crash? Go back and delay her just enough to avoid it.
Basically just enjoy life and create the best timeline I can in my little corner of the world.
Of course getting stupidly rich and living like royalty is always an option too.
Years is better. 5000 years, you invest a bit of money in stocks and as long as you don’t get accused of being a vampire it’s good. Also you can do everything you want in 5000 years, but also it’s not eternity so you won’t outlive the heat death
And best of all, you can finally achieve the years of experience required for your average entry level job before retirement age
Thought about years after initially thinking of yesterdays also… and years would definitely backfire - you’d probably still age and essentially be nothing but a sentient pile of dust by the end of it.
Haha that’s definitely a monkey paws way of interpreting that. Yesterdays could also be you stuck in a Groundhog Day time loop of yesterday tho, but fair point
So here’s the scenarios I see:
- I go back 5000 days with no memory of today, and just redo things. Nah.
- I go back 5000 days but retain my current knowledge. More enticing but probably way harder than I can conceive so also probably nah (but tempting cause it’s a pretty cool option, and I could buy a bunch of bitcoin or something and be made for life)
- I become 5000 days younger but just exist in my current situation, with all my knowledge and experiences intact. Hard to make sense of this, probably no because some weird paradoxes I can’t resolve right now.
- I just stay my age for another 5000 days. Also tempting because it isn’t any major upheaval, but now I’m aging at a significantly different rate than my partner. Probably nah but I feel like if you caught me in the right mood I’d go for it.
- I still age but just live 5000 days longer. Still a gamble if my last years suck but I’d be willing to take it.
This is the most clever answer I’ve seen in these answers. Sad but more valuable than money to a lot of people. This answer is for the hopeless. The answers about ways to get money are hopeful for the future.
I met my husband January 2011… so I would love to go back 5,000 yesterdays and be at the almost moment where we meet and start dating. Ahhh such great memories to redo.
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u/Humble-Ad-7170 5d ago edited 4d ago
Yesterdays. I wish I can get back 5,000 days of my life
Edit: Holy shit!! This comment went crazy!!! Thank you guys for all the positive responses. And to the people who berated and hated. I hope you find peace lol jeez