What's your biggest regret in life? I missed out on the most free money in my life! 🤡

I fucking had the chance to purchase authentic Banksy art when he toured NYC, but fucking didn't.

When Banksy toured NYC he paid some old man to sell authentic Banksy art pieces near central park. I was fucking there that day looking at the stall with all these Banksy pieces thinking which clown would make fake copies and sell them for $50 to $60 a piece. 

Fast forward a few years. I don't even think anything of it until I came across an article talking about that whole Banksy tour and central park authentic art stall. Needless to say, I missed out and I fucked up BIG TIME!

Could have easily bought them all and flipped for a MILLION+ EASY! FUCK ME! 

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Yeah, I'm good. I laugh about it now. You was there that day as well? Shit hit me like rocks when I found out it was real Banksy pieces. I was like what the fuck!!! 

 

I remember going to a lecture in grad school on bitcoin in fall of 2013 and thinking I missed the chance to get rich on bitcoin based on its pricing graph 

 

Lmfao! Should have just yolo it! Hey, at least you not the dude who bought a pie of pizza with bitcoin that is worth like $20million today. If I did that I don't think I would be able to sleep.

 

Wouldve, Couldve, Shouldve - but was also a broke grad student so didnt even have a stock portfolio at the time let alone a YOLO fund. 

There will always be missed opportunities - whether it's stock investments, real estate, job offers, business opportunities, etc. But god damn the opportunity to see exponential returns like what was available in Crypto comes around maybe once every 20 years.

Doesnt sting that much because lets be honest. You buy BTC at $200, you sell at $1,000 thinking you are a genius. Or $2,000, or $5,000. Only the truest of the true can HODL that thing to 100k

 
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I remember when my coworker tried to talk me into taking a flyer on BTC with him back when it hit the "highest price ever" of $50/per and "it'll hit $100/per in a couple of years, so buy now!" I could've been mining my own at home and earning something like I think it was still a coin a week or so back then? That's how long ago it was, can't quite remember anymore. Instead of kicking myself I think back knowing that even if I did dump $1k into it at $50/per why wouldn't I have cashed out at $75/per or $100/per, let alone thinking it'd go so exponential as $1k/per or all the way up to the $50k/per mark and beyond?

The poster formerly known as theAudiophile. Just turned up to 11, like the stereo.
 

 I would much rather hang a $100 painting from a local artist that I like on my wall than a Banksy that I hate.  To answer your question though,  I really don't regret much,  maybe putting to much into relationships that don't workout,  but even after sometime of heartache I am able to generally reflect on what made a relationship good or bad.

 

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