The Bitcoin Ship Came in and You Were at the Airport
3 min readJul 1, 2021
DISCLAIMER: I am not a licensed or certified financial advisor, yet this IS financial advice. In a similar fashion, I might provide you with advice on what llama to buy. I’ve seen my share of llamas and I think I can pick out the Dalais from the Lorenzos.
Who Is This Story For?
- It’s the middle of 2021, and you managed to slink out of every blockchain conversation in the office or at Thanksgiving dinner, and you feel that you might have missed out on something.
- That coworker with all the weird stickers on his laptop is driving a new Porsche and has given you an “I told you so” glance more than once.
- You could care less about “magic internet money,” “decentralized finance,” “cross-border frictionless remittances,” but you have a little money, and you’d like to have some more money.
Did I Miss Out on Getting Rich from Bitcoin?
Honestly, yes. If you listened to “that guy” a few years ago and bought some, you could have enough to retire by now. Today if you buy Bitcoin, you’ll be lucky to get a three or four times multiple for your money. Bitcoin is trading around $34K. If it possibly went up 10X, it would be worth $344K, and your $1,000 investment would be worth $10,000. If that were…
