Man, I guess Sturgill Simpson would grimace watching this video again.
Some folks don’t like watching outdated movies of themselves as a result of they don’t just like the sound of their very own voice, or as a result of they don’t need to be reminded that Father Time is undefeated. Sturgill in all probability wouldn’t like watching this clip of himself from 2018 as a result of he’d get upset serious about the entire cash he might have made.
Simpson was on The Joe Rogan Expertise seven years in the past, and whereas he was on, he and Rogan began speaking about Bitcoin… which was nonetheless a comparatively new factor on the time:
“I keep in mind Shooter (Jennings) occurring and on, years in the past, in regards to the Bitcoin sh*t man. He bought hung up on the Bitcoin for a minute. I want I’d have listened.”
Rogan went on to name Shooter a “Bitcoin Believer,” then the podcast host identified that even he himself was a bit skeptical about all of it.
Sturgill agreed, and it’s just a bit painful to observe this sort of dialog play out now armed with hindsight in 2025:
“I don’t perceive it, and I in all probability by no means will. So I’m going to remain over right here (away from it). It feels a bit pyramid scheme-ey. I don’t know. At this level in my life, I simply assume every part is a pyramid scheme.”
On the time of that podcast recording (March of 2018), one Bitcoin was price round $11,000. By the tip of 2018 although, the worth had dropped down beneath $4,000. So Sturgill Simpson in all probability wasn’t too upset not investing that yr, since Bitcoin’s numbers weren’t all that flashy.
However now in 2025, one Bitcoin is price $104,000.
Let’s simply say Sturgill did hop aboard the Bitcoin prepare in 2018 shortly after that Joe Rogan interview. Hell, let’s use a helpful dandy Bitcoin calculator and say he walked out of the studio and determined – on a whim – to purchase $10,000 price of Bitcoin. That funding would have garnered some unreal revenue.
$10,000 bought in March of 2018 would have seen a return of 811.89%. In different phrases, that Bitcoin funding would now be price $91,189, thus giving Sturgill a revenue of $81,189. If Shooter Jennings was attempting to show Simpson onto Bitcoin years earlier than 2018, there’s no telling how effectively Waylon’s son has executed along with his crypto investing. Simply think about Stu placing a cool 100 grand into Bitcoin (I’m positive he had that laying round on the time), he would have netted out over $1.2 million.
Hopefully this story doesn’t make Sturgill (and everybody else who missed the boat) unhappy. My apologies if you happen to simply so occur to be studying this, Mr. Johnny Blue Skies. The silver lining is that Simpson did handle to accurately predict the one other side of the longer term a short while after he made these Bitcoin feedback.
The nation music threw out a guess for the way forward for commerce that simply so occurred to return true:
“(What) if everybody agreed to an implant, with your whole information on it? All of your cash on it? (Folks can be like), ‘Cool, stroll into your film man.’”
There are some chips like Simpson is speaking about in improvement, from what I can inform. And there’s already this loopy palm reader know-how at Entire Meals (and different fashionable storefronts) that permit for purchasers to pay for his or her objects simply by having their handprint learn:
What’s with the Simpsons – each cartoon and nation star – all the time with the ability to predict the longer term? (thanks, I’ll be right here all week).
