I received a 30k bonus like 3-4 years ago from a pharmaceutical contract. I had been using BTC since 2010 for black market purchases. I first bought BTC at $12, it introduced at .08 cents. By the time of that particular bonus, it had become apparent to me that you were not a particularly bright individual if you didn't see the reality of BTC (e.g. Pesty) or you had other conflicting interests (e.g. Jamie Dimon). I was kicking myself in the ass for not spending like 1-2k on BTC when it was $12. So I said fuck it I'll spend half of this bonus on BTC. Doesn't really matter if I lose it all, I won't even notice, it's a bonus. I should have spent the whole 30k obviously. At the time it was around $700, a little more, so I ended up buying 20 BTC for right around 15k. Today my $15k investment was worth almost $700k.
I have 4 houses/properties (Culver City, Rancho Cucamonga, Las Vegas, Baton Rouge). I make traditional 401k contributions at 8-10%. So I have stock, properties and BTC. I bought the Vegas house during the crash around 2009, 3 story house sold for 450K in Summerlin for 117K in foreclosure. I haven't had it appraised but area sales it looks to be 350-400k now. I almost never look at my 401k but I don't have to in order to know it's not even close. So for example I spent $117k 10 years ago in Vegas and made about 250k. I don't know what I've put into stocks exactly and what I've made but I know it's the least performing of the 3 investments by far.
So let me ask the genius investors out there like Pesty who are "not a fan" where should I have put my 15k 3-4 years ago besides BTC? I made 665K tax free off of BTC from a 15k investment within 4 years. So for you genius investors who think BTC sucks or are "not a fan" where do you put your money and what have your returns been?