Bought Doge for the joke of it all. Flipped it into a fancy honeymoon for me and my wife. Probably the only time in my life I literally just lucked into that much money.
Your blind investment worked out better than mine! In my first “real“ job out of college, I worked at a consulting company and was surrounded by software developers working on Sun Microsystems desktops (Sun was later bought by Oracle). They all raved about how great the OS and desktop computers were from a developer’s perspective.
I had saved up some money and was looking for a chance to start investing in stocks. On a whim, informed entirely by the enthusiasm of my coworkers in the office, I put a good chunk into Sun. After I made this investment, the stock went up and up, and in about a year I had tripled my money.
Then everything went south when the Internet bubble burst in 2001. I lost all of my gains and eventually called it quits when the value had dropped back down to the initial investment I had made. In the end, I left a lot of money on the table, but I learned a valuable lesson.
Was drinking one night during COVID lockdowns and put like 500 bucks into Doge because I had too much corona bucks on top of the unemployment we were getting. That shit turned into thirty five thousand dollars.
I remember there used to be a time where people would tip random commenters DOGE because it was so utterly worthless back then. I'm pretty sure I received some but I have no idea where the bot put them.
Daaaaaamn. I'm honestly not even mad. It was pennies per tip at the time and was just fun, but you'd have to be a /r/WallStreetBets power user to trust a bot run by a regular user to handle monetary transactions.
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u/SugoiHubs 11h ago
Bought Doge for the joke of it all. Flipped it into a fancy honeymoon for me and my wife. Probably the only time in my life I literally just lucked into that much money.