Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)

Should add (2013) to the title.

If I were a time-traveler from 2025 to 2013, and things were roughly as described, you can bet I would go straight to Reddit and tell, in lurid detail, the tale of this digital dystopia.

Not because I expect it to change the outcome. Time travel doesn't work like that.

No, I would do it because I would need to do it -- because in a sense, I had already done it. I would, in all likelihood, already be aware of having done it, because during the time leading up to my temporal voyage, I would have read the words time-traveling me had already written.

And I would be very glad to do it, whether or not I had a choice in the matter, because I would already know about the Bitcoin I would receive from amused Redditors for having done it.

I might have to return to the dystopian future, but I would return very rich. Probably rich enough to afford adequate security protection and to live out the rest of my days in luxury. It might not be the best outcome for the human race as a whole, but it would be a very good outcome for me.

Not the best writing style but still a fun read.

Could change a few things to create a big budget Hollywood script out of it: Terminator x Mad Max x Big Short x In Time. I'd probably watch it too.

If it'll have a year like 2017, it will hit $100k mid 2018

Well, when this was written in 2013, the numbers for 2015 and 2017 probably provoked the same response (haven't read through the Reddit thread to check it). That being said, I'm with you in doubting Bitcoin will ever be worth $100,000.