/biz/ - Business & Finance

Kind of a blog but related to /biz/ness, this is a fucking revelation for me.
I was just looking at a map and found a place I'd been with my grandad when I was a kid, he talked about metal detecting in that area, with the hope of finding medieval golden coins, but the area was massively inhabited and had been farmed and worked for years, people came and went there all the time. I knew even then as a kid, he'd only find old farm machinery and cans and nails, and that the area had probably been metal-detected hundreds of times by other people. He lived a life of needless poverty, never achieved anything and died penniless, in a bad neighbourhood, knowing nothing about investing or making money or anything for that matter.
In 2012 I had no money and I remember asking my friends and family if I could borrow a few hundred to put into bitcoin. I think I asked him too. No one helped me, not even the people with wealth to spare. 1btc was about £300 to £600 back then iirc. I bought about 0.005 for £3. Now worth about £250.
Years later I had worked and saved and struggled and managed to put in about 1.5k into btc in nov '22 because I knew that was the dip.
it was at 13k. it's 55k now. I'm currently funnelling my bitcoin profits directly into silver to hedge against inflation and it feels like I barely know fucking anything about investing, but I know infinitely more than my grandad did and have achieved infinitely more.
I'm just flabbergasted all the time at how ignorant my family was. Like, I've BARELY lifted the lid and I'm making money and investing and buying precious metals and making it ... WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY DOING!?!?