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If only I would have had the foresight to buy a lottery ticket with the correct winning numbers.

Yes, there was Bitcoin, however there are always millions of investment opportunities that may or may not pan out. Most don't.

There's always something called as an Index fund. Which more or less tracks the top companies of a country. Unless you expect your country itself to go down, its generally a good lottery ticket to buy.

I'd say just throw in some pocket change in places where you can afford to lose. You never know as the downside is nearly 0, the upside is in millions.

Worse, he would have probably bought them on MtGox, since it was the most popular during those prices.

This is my personal coping mechanism. If I made $10k in BC I would have sold it all and felt very lucky.

I did find a fractional BC on a thumbnail drive in an EOL software wallet for which I had long ago forgotten the password. So that could have happened too.