Chapter 20 The path you have chosen will go down on your knees
When it comes to getting married, it's even more cautious!
Although the divorce rate in the United States is as high as 40 or 50 percent, after entering the marriage, the loyalty to the family is even higher!
Although Lip is very optimistic about Fiona and Jimmy, he does not plan to interfere too much in their relationship.
Even if he is a reborn person who is familiar with the development of the plot, Lip does not want to be an interfer in other people's lives, and become the kind of person he hates, under the banner of "for your good", pointing fingers at other people's lives, trying to make them live according to their own ideas.
The current Gallagher family is no longer on the screen in life, but a living individual around Lipp.
Lip is not a screenwriter and cannot impose their lives just because he is a reborn.
At most, it can be slightly influenced at a few more important nodes, so that they can live better and take a little less detours.
Lip's main task at present is not to help the Gallagher family change the status quo of life, nor to reverse the lives of the siblings, but to put his own life on the right track first.
God help the self-helpers!
Throughout the nine seasons of "Shameless", the reason why the brothers and sisters of the Gallagher family are the direction of the play is of course related to their growth environment, but more importantly, it is their own choice!
From the day he was reborn, Lip had already made a choice - to break away from his current status as a poor man on the South Side of Chicago and use his rebirth to become a human being!
At least he won't be like Lipp in the play, becoming an alcoholic, abusive person, his life is a mess, and he insists on helping others.
Lipp in the play, although he is growing up every season, has never gotten rid of his status as a palum in the South Side of Chicago, even if he went to college, and finally because of himself, he messed up everything and returned to the South Side to work in a motorcycle repair shop.
Of course, that is the life arranged for him by the screenwriter, and if he really successfully graduates from college and goes to a bright future, then he will get rid of the name of "shameless" and be removed from the Gallagher family.
Lip, who has been reborn, of course, will no longer be a marionette in the hands of the screenwriter, he wants to completely control his own life!
In his plan, in addition to being admitted to college, and successfully graduate, getting a good job, getting rid of the status of the poor in the South Side of Chicago, and more importantly, making money!
Make good money!
In fact, the ultimate goal of going to college is also to make money, and only when his income reaches the standard of the wealthy class can he be considered a rich person!
Instead, you have to go to college step by step, find a job, and slowly climb up, first becoming the middle class, and then working hard to become the wealthy class.
With his talent, if he walks down-to-earth like this, he will one day achieve his goal.
However, such a process is too slow for Lipu now!
With the advantage of being reborn, Lip has a lot of corners to overtake, ways to get rich quick!
As mentioned earlier, buying Apple shares, hitchhiking on Apple's soaring stock price, and making money lying down is only the easiest way to do it — not the most suitable way, because it requires a lot of capital investment.
What Lip lacks most now is principal.
Just smuggling the iPhone 4 into China can only make Lip make a little money, and it is only a drop in the bucket if you want to make a profit from the stock market.
Lip had already thought of another project with a small investment and a large return.
Bitcoin!
Bitcoin is a new concept of electronic money proposed by a person named Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008, when the global economic crisis broke out.
In 2009, Bitcoin was officially born.
On May 21, 2010, an American programmer named Razler exchanged 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas with a market value of $30.
That was the first time Bitcoin was used for actual transactions, and Bitcoin has had real value since then!
That transaction can be used as a criterion for the initial value of bitcoin - one bitcoin is worth $0.003!
And on December 18, 2017, when the value of Bitcoin reached its all-time high, the price of one piece reached $18,674!
That's a full 3.8 million times higher than the original value!
If this outcome could have been predicted, the American programmer named Lesler would never have made that bad deal again, even if he never ate pizza again for the rest of his life!
The total value of those 10,000 bitcoins, if Rustler holds it until 2018, will be as high as $180 million!
As far as Lip knows, there is no business in this world that rises higher and faster than buying bitcoin in 2010 and holding it for a long time!
Now, in November 2010, the price of one bitcoin on Mt. Gox, the world's largest bitcoin trading platform, has just exceeded $0.5, but it has risen 167 times compared to the initial value.
After completing the first transaction with Jim, Lip took $200 out of the profit and used it to buy Bitcoin.
For $200, Lip owns 415 bitcoins.
If these bitcoins are kept until 7 years later, when bitcoin rises to its all-time peak, they can be exchanged for $7787060 for Lip!
More than 7.78 million US dollars, more than 50 million yuan!
This business couldn't be better!
After that, every time Lip completed a transaction with Jim, he would withdraw $1,000 to buy Bitcoin.
Because of his incursions, the value of Bitcoin has risen much faster than in its original history.
By June 2011, when Lip graduated from high school, the price of a single Bitcoin coin had risen to $40, an increase of nearly 30% over its original history.
Lip invested $6,000 and acquired 4,387 bitcoins, and the value rose to more than 175,000!
However, the value of bitcoin at this time has no meaning to Lip, and Lip will not consider selling until its value rises to $15,000 per coin, and according to the historical development trend of bitcoin, it will take until November 2017 to rise to $15,000 per coin.
Lip is now buying Bitcoin, although it is also speculation, but unlike those speculators who came later, he is because he has a reborn memory, clearly knows the price trend of Bitcoin, and has a bottom in his heart, so he can hold it for a long time.
Later speculators, except for a very small number of bigwigs in the currency circle, others will treat Bitcoin as a stock, low in and high out, through continuous trading, to achieve the purpose of short-term profits.
Lip is muffled and made a fortune!
Moreover, his shot was quite restrained, although he was buying the bottom, but the amount of money invested was not very much.
Buying bitcoin is just one of the means for him to get rich, and it is really not challenging for a reborn person to make money without any difficulty, and Lip did not put too much energy into it.
As of graduating from high school in June 2011, he invested more money in the acquisition of Bitcoin, and there was no more than the ultra-large and ultra-small USB flash drive that he specially customized for storing the address and key of Bitcoin!
This U disk, which he specially designed into a necklace pendant style, hangs around his neck and is close to his collection!