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0 pointsquickthrower26y ago0 comments

Bitcoin is an outlier. Once in a century kind of thing in that it was available in plain sight to the masses then boomed.

Trying to find the next bitcoin like thing will probably be frustrating.

You are looking for things that other people laugh at or dismiss but in your mind will win.

Something like Elm programming language (or its paradigm at least) But you don’t get rich but getting Elm early like Bitcoin :)

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muzani6y ago

There's been other big things but all of them were laughed at. Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon were all seen as terrible stocks by analysts. If nobody laughs at it, chances are it's not going to go very far.

Newton did theology, alchemy, calculus. All of these were/are considered crazy ideas, but one worked.

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