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Punoxysm comments on Look for the Next Tech Gold Rush? - Less Wrong Discussion

34 Post author: Wei_Dai 19 July 2014 10:08AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 19 July 2014 07:59:26PM 6 points [-]

Nobody makes money off gold in a gold rush. Those who make money from the strike already found their gold before it was a gold rush.

Are you talking about literal gold rush, or tech gold rush? With domain names, I registered my domains at almost the exact peak of the dot com bubble, when surely the domain name rush was well underway. With Bitcoin, I started only after it was so well known that it was being discussed on a barely related site, Less Wrong.

Comment author: Punoxysm 22 July 2014 06:38:32PM 0 points [-]

To be fair, if your name were Jebediah Thorgunnsen, your domain name would not have appreciated so much.