Yea man! That's where the money's at! It's not about these short-term trades, but the long-term decade hodl!
I'm like so jelly of the 18 year old teens right now, too dumb, too young, too foolish, and now saturated with bitcoin and crypto hype. I could see one of them going up to his friends saying, “ey guys, watch this! I'm a buy $10 of bitcoin and be reeeech!” “lol, you so dumb, you a loser if u do that, that $10 dolla gone man. Just buy us some pizza, lel!” “Haha, you're on! I betcha I'm gonna be a millionaire, like Rebecca Black.”
But he doesn't care about the money or the bet or the dare. They're just kids having dumb fun. And they don't know the value of $10 because it's probably lunch money or weekly allowance their parents gave. So he walks up to a bitcoin ATM, puts in $12 to buy $10, and it gives him a receipt with his private and public keys. He stuffs the piece of paper in his pocket and him and his friends laugh about it for a total of 20 seconds, then they go off to play sports and whistle at girls.
The kid comes home, tired, alone time on his mind, he empties his pockets and stuffs the piece of paper with his private key into his drawer without even thinking. He forgets all about it as he dons his headphones to listen to Justin Bieber while playing Pokemon Go Trump version. He doesn't have to worry or think about anything but school and having fun because he's still being supported by his parents or scholarships / generous college loans and whoever is holding his hand.
Flash forward 10 years later, 18-year old teen is now a 28-year old who just got engaged. He's moving his old dorm stuff into the new house he's mortgaged with his fiance. As he brings in one of the boxes, the piece of paper falls out. He picks it up and sees the familiar printout – his mind is thrown back to the fun times he spent foolin' around without a care in the world that summer before college sippin' on slurpees with his crew by the 7/11.
He'd smile a little, remembering how carefree the world was, and how he wishes he could go back to that summer – but then he'd also remember the bet and the dare! He had forgotten all about it! All this time, he's passively heard on the news the ups and downs of bitcoin and crypto while he was busy with earning his degree, his internship, and climbing the damn corporate ladder. He remembers the heights when it reached 25k, and the falls when a super Bittrex scandal came out and it fell back to $5k, he's heard some poor souls in Vietnam and India noosed themselves when everything crashed and they had their whole home hedged on bitcoin. Then he heard about the new developers and government contracts with Vitalik and other crypto leaders and the other moonshot when bitcoin made it to 50k. Then he heard about the huge scams and how bitcoin crashed again, and was glad he didn't jump in.
Now, last he heard bitcoin hit $5,000,000! He quickly turns on his quantum computer (because that's what's up 10 years from now) and searches for bitcoin help and finds Bitcointalk as the first search result. So he makes an account and makes a first post that will have all of us triggered: “hey every1! I just found an old private key or whatever. There's two number strings. I THINK I REMEMBER I HAVE BTC0.00113! how do I download my bitcoins or whatever? PLS HELP! KTHXBYE!”
A few shitposters with flashy signatures will throw up some walls of texts that are completely unrelated, like scanning his hard drive for a private key, looking for older hard drives, not sharing his private key with Amazon, not replying to Pms begging for BTC, and scanning his SIM card and phone memory for a string.
But then there will be the 5-liners that come next, which answer his question – step-by-step guide on downloading Bitcoin core and importing his private key, and even a list of new hardware wallets that support private key importing.
A few hours later, his fiance walks into the computer room wondering why he's been in there when they were supposed to be watching King Fu Panda 19 on GoogleTV. He's now just imported his private key wherever and sees his balance is indeed BTC0.00113 after all these years, untouched by gamble trading and panic selling. He turns around excitedly to tell her, “BAE! WE JUST GOT $5,618 BIG ONES FROM BITCOIN! Now we can pay off our ” ...But chances are they're going to buy an alta and experience the moons and hells we know and love.
I honestly think bitcoin will be huge in 10 years. Blockchain tech is the future, and bitcoin won't die. Decentralization is true democracy that only computers have brought us. Imho, it's as revolutionary as the internet, and it's greatly undervalued.
But, as my fiction narrative happily points out – I think it's too late to buy bitcoin if you want to be one of those insane 10-year zillionaires. Imagine if this guy bought Eth or another solid alt?
would be funny if 10 years from now someone quotes my post and says: THIS IS ME, YO!
