I have an old roommate that would pressure another roommate and myself from time to time back in early 2011 to buy these imaginary internet coins he was really into. He had a separate Linux computer that he always messed around on, showing us random stuff he would find on the deep web. A typical kinda nerdy dude in his 20s that obsessively played WOW and drove a Saab, his nickname was Pukey (he puked everytime he smoked anything bigger than a tiny hit off a bowl) just to give you a further idea about his unique character. He would go on rants about how Bitcoin was the future, I remember him telling us that all the bitcoins he has bought has already more than 1000x in value, he was practically begging us in excitement to put even $50 in so we could see what happens. That's when I started to question stuff. Without him really having an explanation of what I could actually do with these "internet coins" if I did buy them, besides trust some sketchy 1995 looking websites he would browse on an entirely different computer and never actually bought anything from... I was not sold on the idea. I remember questioning why he was buying these when he couldn't even use them for anything. Nothing changed in his head even after the joking criticism that it was all worth nothing, he kept buying them. Pukey had a lot of fucking Bitcoin, easily $1000's of dollars in what we thought was wasted money. Later the next year I moved away and never really kept in touch with these old roommates besides briefly on Facebook for about a year. Years go by and around 2018 when bitcoin had a price of like 8k my brother was telling me about a crazy story of someone he knew years ago that started mining Bitcoin and how much money they have now. This made me think about my old roommate Pukey and his "fake internet money" he went on and on about back in 2011. Naturally crazy numbers started going through my head on how much I could have made and how I should have listened to that crazy bastard that sounded like a stoned lunatic burning his money. I don't know exactly what price Pukey got in at or how long he continued to buy after I moved away, but he didn't stop buying even when he was telling me it had already 1000x in 2011. I went on to try and reach out to him just to congratulate him on his likely success and so he could give me a much overdue I told you so. I tried to find him on his Facebook but it no longer exists, reached out to old mutual friends from years ago that we worked with and have come up with nothing. I've tried contacting him through his old phone number that I still had but it's no longer his number. Pukey if you're still out there and you see this, I wish the best for you, you son of a bitch you were right!!
TLDR: Listen to that eccentric crazy sounding person in your life telling you to get into crypto, it will change your life in 10 years.
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