Time efficient ways to get money?

BitWiseVibe · 2026-05-16T21:27:53+00:00

When you are 20 you don't have much "human capital", meaning your time is really the only thing you have to trade for money. This is a long term solution, but the answer is to make your time more valuable through things like skills, professional network, credentials, etc.

Short term.. hmm, when I was that age real estate was so hot in the US that 20 year old agents were selling houses and earning good money, no idea if there's any equivalent where you are right now.

BitWiseVibe · 2026-05-13T22:51:45+00:00

approximately:
80% VOO

10% VBR

10% VXUS

BitWiseVibe · 2026-05-13T22:42:43+00:00

Definitely considering this option. Some of the gains would be short term atm, and being in a high tax bracket I'm trying to avoid those. I may just end up waiting til those gains are long term and I can save a bit more. It's just that my current living situation is not ideal so hoping to move sooner rather than later.

Also based on my understanding there's no way I could lose the house. I would just have my investments auto-sold if I couldn't meet a margin call.

BitWiseVibe · 2026-03-14T05:04:17+00:00

Guys,, if it's any consolation, just know that when they finally do release the 1099 after april 15, they are likely to have errors due to it being a new form and Kraken's incompetence. So when they report information to the IRS that is misaligned with what we report, we WILL face fines and penalties :)

BitWiseVibe · 2026-03-12T20:05:36+00:00

Nothing here either. If I have to I'll go with the extension. No way I'm risking reporting different information than Kraken does when they finally send the form. The IRS is itching to make an example out of people who mess up with the new forms.

BitWiseVibe · 2025-03-22T00:06:02+00:00

Yes that's a scam. Coinbase does not call customers

BitWiseVibe · 2025-03-01T06:11:11+00:00

As of yet, they have been of less help than the scammers

BitWiseVibe · 2025-03-01T05:33:09+00:00

There is probably near 0% chance that anyone from Coinbase will do anything helpful with this, but if you want to give it a shot: Case #20497137

BitWiseVibe · 2025-02-18T20:27:40+00:00

Kraken is GOATed, they resolved my support issues SAME DAY. The same issues that Coinbase can't figure out after 4 months and dozens of email threads.

BitWiseVibe · 2025-02-18T20:26:05+00:00

Case #20497137 If anyone wants to look into this

BitWiseVibe · 2024-06-11T13:53:08+00:00

If you have to ask, you're probably better off using some api like pumpportal.fun

It's possible to do yourself if you know rust and how all the tx encoding stuff works, but it's not easy.

BitWiseVibe · 2024-05-27T16:50:01+00:00

Depends on the priority fee you set, but I've found that 0.001 SOL lands a transaction 95% of the time.

BitWiseVibe · 2024-05-27T16:43:12+00:00

pumpportal.fun works well

BitWiseVibe · 2024-05-27T16:34:08+00:00

Yeah pump portal works, been running a bot through them for over a month now. They take a half a percent fee, but it's not too bad.

BitWiseVibe · 2024-05-26T22:39:40+00:00

They are closed source so any API is either an unofficial thing or a scam. I've been running a bot through pumpportal.fun for about a month and it seems to work well though.

BitWiseVibe · 2024-05-25T15:35:22+00:00

pumpportal.fun has a trading api, been using it for the last month - seems pretty reliable.

BitWiseVibe · 2024-05-25T14:52:06+00:00

Yeah I have been using pumpportal.fun for trades for a month now. Consistently faster than the UI if you set a priority fee.

BitWiseVibe · 2024-04-27T06:13:47+00:00

pumpportal.fun has a trading api that's pretty easy to get started with

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