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    >>> 100*1.48**12
    11044.360771961152

That's ELEVEN THOUSAND percent a year. 110x your money every year. That's enough to turn a dollar into 16 billion in 5 years.

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Yeah, I managed to miss a digit when I ran the numbers myself so I was off by an order of magnitude when I wrote my post. Glad you checked it. Fucking hilarious what these guys will say - of course, I think that's a goal, to shock anyone remotely reasonable or who even tries to do back of the envelope math out of interest in it.

> That's enough to turn a dollar into 16 billion in 5 years.

I think it's actually 1.6 trillion

It's actually 16 billion.

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