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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'd "suffer" through school again happily if I could take some opportunities that once passed me by. I was at a good age when Bitcoin hit the scene. I thought it was not very interesting and probably wouldn't amount to much.... At a time where you could get several a day with little more than the computing power of an era appropriate smartphone.

$10M now vs mining as many Bitcoin as you could back then, and then cashing out when it peaked in 2021.... Just that simple change and the 10M seems like nothing.

I also made some strategic errors in my youth, dropping out of school and going to work full time at a dead end retail job, and working there for years before deciding to go and finish my education. I had saved nothing from my time working and put myself pretty deep into debt by the end of it.

By the time I graduated, I was pushing 30, I was something like six figures in debt, and I had no job prospects. I ended up working at a call center.

So yeah, I'll suffer through grade school and high school again if it means I can do it right. I wouldn't excel so much that I stood out... Maybe just enough to skip a grade, get started on college just a little bit sooner. Invest any money I had into Apple or something, right before the big iPhone explosion. I would still be financially set for life, knowing what I know.