How COVID Changed Ty's Bitcoin Investment Strategy

17 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Single-speaker first-person recounting of a missed Bitcoin investment opportunity at the start of the COVID pandemic. The speaker says on March 16 (Bitcoin ~$13,000) they planned to invest roughly $150,000 but delayed purchases until late August due to COVID-related concerns; they estimate that buying in February would have turned $150,000 into about $18 million.

Questions this video answers

March 16th.

$13,000 ("13 grand").

$150,000.

Late August (2020).

About $18 million.

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And that was when Covid happened. When Covid happened. I'll never forget this. It was March 16th. Bitcoin was 13 grand. And I was gonna buy a lot of bitcoin. I was Gonna put about 150,000 into Bitcoin. But I was so paranoid about our staff and the economy and, like, what's gonna happen. So I didn't do it. I waited until late August, and then I started buying bitcoin. If I would have bought the bitcoin in February, the way that I said I would have bought it, that 150,000 would have been about $18 million.