Blue Door. One of my greatest mistakes was not buying Bitcoin when it was 100 dollars
Blue or red door?
Submitted 1 year ago by likeaduck@programming.dev to [deleted]
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unimalion@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
oldGregg@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I fucking did buy bitcoin when it was pennies, but dumbass past me had a nasal problem and spent it immediately.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
At least you got some fun out of it. The majority of the BTC I ever owned was on my parents computer that somehow wound up in my aunts hands. She stripped it and sold it all for parts…
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wonder what would be more profitable, buying Bitcoin early, or buying Apple stocks early?
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Apple, their stock has split several times
dan1101@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Red door, I can’t say how much better I would do things if I did them again. But 10 mil can make things much better right now.
superkret@feddit.de 1 year ago
10 mil would fix all my problems.
ihwip@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Blue door is essentially erasing your own existence. Why do people even view it as an option? The me that made mistakes created the me today. If I erase those mistakes I wouldn’t exist. Just some other guy with an easy life.
sndvdsn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
True, true. One of the mistakes however is not buying tech stocks in their infancy, so you’d wind up with way more than 10m.
jcg@halubilo.social 1 year ago
I’ve forgotten again that the average age on here skews 30+. All the big tech stocks were cheap when I was literally an infant, so I really misunderstood what you said.
Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Because you have a different view of time and space. You could go back in time and stay the same,it’s just a different timeline, where you see a younger version of yourself. But changing anything in his life don’t affect yours, only his. There can’t be paradox in this model.
metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 1 year ago
The blue door implies that your current existence is the one changing your past, i.e. you retain the knowledge of your current existence. The ‘you’ that made those mistakes therefore still exists, as you would remember the mistakes you’ve made in order to correct them. The mistakes still happened, your timeline still exists/existed, you’re just now in an alternate timeline where your brain was surgically implanted into your younger self.
Rollio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly! I can’t count how many times I’ve messed up, but without them I wouldn’t be who I am today. Hence why I pick the red door, not for the money, but so that the experiences that shaped me still mean something.
michael@lemmy.perthchat.org 1 year ago
The blue door, because money can’t buy me the time back. It’s priceless.
Also I could just buy BTC at $2 a piece and make the 10 mill as well. So it’s win-win.
Fjaeger@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I’d even say, im hindsight it was a mistake not to buy bitcoin back then.
Exusia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I strongly considered buying a single bitcoin for $700. I was irrational with money bit it seemed like a good idea. I decided I was being dumb with my money again and didnt go through with it.
It would have been worth it. Even at $700 it would have been worth it.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It was $2 because most people didn’t know what it was yet.
Bye@lemmy.world 1 year ago
$2? I’d go back to 2012 or whatever and mine it using free electricity in grad school. Hell I’d use their cluster, call the slurm job something like “orbital_freq_prime_factors”
And I’d break up with my college girlfriend
And I’d bring my doctoral dissertation back in time so I didn’t have to write it
Even if the bitcoins didn’t work out, maybe I could buy Pokémon cards for cheap and sell them
preciouspupp@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Go through blue door to choose red door instead.
Klear@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Go through the red door and use that money to build a tine machine.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Red Door cause I know myself enough to know I’m gonna make all the same mistakes even if I had perfect recollection of years of details I don’t even remember now.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why would you go back in time only to make the same mistakes again when you can now have ample opportunity for whole new ones!
_bug0ut@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Big brain thinking right here. Variety is the spice of life.
Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I can’t imagine all the mistakes i could do with 10M xD
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Read, give me that money there are more mistakes to be made.
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Blue door without question. Even if there was a stipulation that I couldn’t invest in stocks or bitcoin or do anything else that would make me rich.
I fantasise about going back and doing it all again, not making huge changes, but little ones, living my life with the knowledge and security I have now, so I would be able to enjoy my childhood instead of stressing about the future, I could be kinder to people around me and help them when they were struggling. I could tell the people I loved that I loved them instead of keeping those feeling held back due to insecurity. I could spend more time with my pets when I was “too busy” before. I could start the hobbies and sports I ended up loving as a child, and actually have the chance to be competitive at them.
Belgdore@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Blue door would mean having to relive my childhood years being forced to go to church and Christian school, but without the indoctrination that made it feel like it was a good thing. That would be torture.
revlayle@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Blue, because I’ll might come to this again and take the red door on the second time around.
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Red. No amount of fixing mistakes will ever repair my lifelong depression.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 year ago
Who decides what is a “mistake” and what is “fixed”? I feel like going through the blue door would trap you into some kind of infinite loop
bababooey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
After walking into the blue door the first mistake it corrects is that I should have picked the red door.
Noughmad@programming.dev 1 year ago
Does “not buying Bitcoin for $1” count as a mistake or not?
Saneless@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Doesn’t matter. You would have sold it when it was like $27
otacon239@feddit.de 1 year ago
I’ve seen enough of Silicon Valley to know you take the money and run.
Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Am I the only one who thinks there haven’t been big 'mistakes" in their life, just, you know, life? I mean, sure, there are things I would do differently given the chance, but not something I would call big mistakes. I would definitely go for the money - I would even pay money not to have to go though my teens again lol
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah… The mistakes are learning experiences. They help us grow. If your mistakes are “I dated a girl who cheated on me” and “I leased an expensive car when I shouldn’t have”… Those things probably helped shape you into a more rational, mature person, assuming you learned from them.
Now if your mistake is “I worked 80 hour weeks for 30 years for my shitty career and never saw my family and now I’m dying early from stress induced heart attacks” or “I had some shady dealings in the past and now the mafia is after my family”, I’d take the mistake-fixing door. But hopefully most people’s mistakes aren’t quite that bad.
drathvedro@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This was literally a nightmare I once had. I dreamt that I found a time machine and started changing my past little by little, working backwards and fixing minor mistakes, then bigger and bigger ones, but seeing no major impacts on my life. Like fixing a flunked exam only changed the diploma to a “with honors” one and nothing else. But I kept going until a certain event in my life that had really profound impact on my emotional health and made me attempt suicide, but it was also the one that really shaped me into who I am today. After preventing it, bam, Im in a place and a role the current me would’ve never wanted to be in, and the guy I turned into probably didnt want either, it was just so much worse off. After that dream I started to go much more easier on myself. I still cringe from time to time when I remember my past actions, but I dont really regret what happened anymore.
Razzazzika@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You should watch thr movie ‘The Butterfly Effect’ its literally that. He initially goes back in time to fix something but then winds up ruining everything.
InternetTubes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mistakes such as guessing the wrong lottery numbers all those times.
OZFive@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Mining Bitcoin immediately and knowing exactly when to get cash out.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t have any major regrets worth fixing, even though I’ve made some major mistakes. However, all of my current problems could be solved with $10M. Give me the money
HubertManne@kbin.social 1 year ago
This is going to be very age related I think for most folks. Myself blue door after making and taking with me a list of lottery numbers and dates along with major sporting event outcomes and horse races for good measure. Oh also stocks along with buy sell dates and value on those dates.
blackstampede@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
This guy time travels. That’s what I was thinking too - just stick dates and a few race outcomes would easily translate to more than 10mil.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Is that you, Biff?
Hextic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Time travel way way back to when the first fish crawled on land.
And step on it.
You’re welcome.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Red door fo shiz. Those “mistakes” led directly to the pretty fuckin cool life I have now.
Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Easily the money. There were many things in life that didn’t go quite right for me, but there was a lot that did as well. If I muck around with what already happened, I might end up worse than I did.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Red. People won’t care about my mistakes if they’re drinking mojitos on my yacht.
CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Red Door. Fuck dealing with my life again during that time. Plus, the butterfly effect would be a major concern.
germtm_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stanley walked through the red door.
bleepbloopbleep@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve made many mistakes in life, still I like the person I’ve become. And I’m still absolutely in love with my husband. For 23 years now - wouldn’t trade that for a new life.
So red it is!
mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
You are a result of your personal experiences. Going back and changing would make you an entirely different person.
Nathandee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Without the mistskes
EvilCartyen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Haven’t really made many mistakes in my life, so… red door!
kescusay@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Blue door is a monkey’s paw. You go back in time? You butterfly-effect shit you didn’t intend to.
The answer to these time-travel opportunities is always to run screaming from them. But hey, at least with this one you’ve got an alternative where you become an instant millionaire! Take the $10 million. Don’t fuck the timeline up.
candybrie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, the re-do your life idea really gets scary after you have kids. There’s pretty much no way you get them back.
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like a win-win /s
maniclucky@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bonus points, odds are you will have a really hard time re-meeting your partner. You’re probably a totally different person than you were when you met. The chemistry that got you started is now not there and who knows how you mix now. It may still work, but they might be weirded out by how much you know about them.
For both your sakes, the best option may be to never meet.
I’ll take the red door thanks.
TheAndrewBrown@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The movie About Time deals with this fact. It’s a great movie if you are ok with romcoms
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Yeah having acquired a wife and kids in the last decennia really makes this a no brainer.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I mean your wife would likely still be in the picture, just have to win her over again.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Speak for yourself! As someone who will literally be married for 10 years in 2 weeks and has 2 kids I’m going back baby! How else would I stop the marriage! Yeesh.
BigBootyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Merry marriage aniversery