Tyler was on his way home to pick up his laptop. He needed it to create the trading account, as the platform he intended to use only allowed online registration.
The trading platform Tyler intended to use was IBKR. It was the best at the time and the only one that allowed smooth integration of fully autonomous bots like VaultX.
The platform was also known to be very unfriendly for beginners but Tyler was no beginner.
But the major problem that Tyler has with the platform was their minimum deposit which is a whopping $10,000.
Unlike in the future where $0 was the minimum deposit, the amount at the time was outrageous.
But Tyler wasn't going to give up. He still has a little over $11,000 and if he take $10,000 out of it, he will be left with over $1,000.
But the trading account wasn't the only thing that requires a minimum deposit. It was the same for the bank account too.
David intends to open an account in BoA and he would need $300 for it. Tyler will be the one to fund this and after that, he will be left with $700.
"$35,000 gone in a flash," Tyler muttered, shaking his head. "It didn't even last two days."
Tyler finally got home, headed straight to his room to grab his laptop and the money, and left without wasting a second, making his way back to David's place.
When he got there, David wasn't home, but he had given Tyler a key before leaving, so Tyler let himself in.
David had gone to the bank to open the bank account as they discussed and he will be the one to fund the account. But Tyler will refund him when he gets back.
Tyler sighed heavily, placing his laptop on the table, as he collapsed into a couch.
With nothing to do, he could only sit and wait for David to return. And while he waited, he thought about what to do next.
The bank account and trading account will be ready by tomorrow after their creation process has been initiated today. And VaultX will start live trading tomorrow after it has been linked to the trading account, and it will start making profits for him.
As Tyler thought of what next to do, a random-not-so-random thought popped into his head.
"Buy Bitcoin? No. Mine Bitcoin? Definitely."
In the future, cryptocurrency blew up so much that countries and major corporations started acquiring them.
Bitcoin being the first ever cryptocurrency, was naturally the biggest, hitting a whopping All-time Trading High (ATH) of $109,000 and massive market cap of more than $2 trillion.
Tyler found it funny that with how popular the coin became in his past life, the identity of the anonymous creator of the coin was never found out.
He wasn't exactly curious about the real identity of the coin's creator. It could be like the conspiracies floating around it that it was created by a super advanced alien AI or an alien civilisation that wants to integrate earth into the universe's trade.
But Tyler wasn't interested in anything related to the identity of the creator. What interests him right now was how to start mining the coin.
This was still early 2010. Late March to be exact and according what he knew, and remembered, the first cryptocurrency trading platform, BitcoinMarket, has gone live.
The coin's price was currently hovering between $0.003-$0.05. This means that with just $10, he can acquire for himself 200 BTC.
And in the future, his negligible investment of $10 would be valued at over $20 million, yielding a return on investment (ROI) of more than 200,000%.
But the truth was that Tyler doesn't want this. He doesn't want to purchase Bitcoin.
And don't get him wrong. Not wanting to purchase it is completely different from acquiring it.
He wants to own Bitcoin but he doesn't want to buy it. He could spend as little as $1,000 or even $10,000 to buy 20,000-200,000 BTC now, and it will be worth ~$2.1 billion-#21 billion in the future.
The ROI was insane, yes. But the truth was that even Tyler wanted to make the purchase, he can't due to how thin liquidity was. Making such a huge purchase would cause the price to fluctuate so much that it might crash.
Yes, he could make the purchase through different accounts but he considers that to be stressful.
Unlike in the future, where buying from an exchange was the easiest way to acquire BTC, the easiest method now was through mining.
Yes, mining. By simply setting up a mining rig, he could receive 50 BTC as a block reward every ten minutes. That's over 7,000 BTC in a single day, around 49,000 BTC in a week, and roughly 210,000 BTC by the end of a month.
But this was assuming he mined every block alone, without competition. Because while 50 BTC was currently the block reward at the time, that block was mined every 10 minutes across the entire network, not by a single miner. The only was he can have it all to himself was if he dominated all the computing power.
And this was something Tyler could definitely do. With the Specialised Knowledges, achieving something like that would be extremely easy but he will have spend some money on hardware, as he can't mine on his laptop. It was completely useless for mining.
Tyler naturally had the idea to create his own cryptocurrency but he considers that to be a lot of work.
"Should I actually be focused on something like mining BTC or on how to find a cure for that illness?" He asked himself, shaking his head.
He felt like he was drifting from his main goals — making money, changing his family's situation, finding a cure for that illness, and building his empire along the way.
Yes, purchasing BTC now and holding for the future was one of the ways he could make money. But the problem was that the future was still far off and Tyler needs money urgently.
And one thing Tyler knew about his goals was that out of all them, finding the cure was going to be the most daunting of all.
"I need to find a way to analyse the illness, do some reverse engineering or whatever it's called, so that I can find a cure. And to achieve that, I will have to create a machine that can do the analysis and also help with the cure," he muttered.
"But even with the knowledge from the system, I can't do it alone. I'll need an assistant—one I can trust completely to receive the Specialised Knowledges and put them to work. An AI assistant. But creating one now would be extremely difficult and expensive due to hardware limitations."
The present day hardwares aren't even close to handling an AI. And the first hardware truly capable of supporting AI creation and running it smoothly was released in 2014.
And if Tyler is really serious about creating an AI assistant, he definitely can't wait that long. He have to create the hardware himself and an even better version.
"I really need funds. To purchase the Specialised Knowledges needed to create both the AI and the hardware, I will need close to $1 billion. And there's still production cost," Tyler muttered to himself.
"I really need to step up my game fast. I don't have the luxury of patience this time. I will cure her no matter what it costs," he said through gritted teeth and eyes blazing with determination.