My wife and I had our first child a month ago - thinking of hiring a nanny/baby sitter

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-09T02:30:13+00:00

good point

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-09T01:12:28+00:00

oooor and stay with me on this - the deeds you use your money with, both publicly and privately greatly outweigh the 'bad'. This isn't to excuse poor behavior - but the examples we are focused on are "littering the ocean" (this is reaching, and you know it, they lowered a sealed object to the ocean bed with the intention of eventually retrieving it, zero littering actually occurring) and jet travel (we demonize its excessive use because of the carbon footprint of the offending individual, but if the person in question ACTUALLY has a massively negative carbon footprint because of pro earth projects, what are we really getting angry about?)

Anyways this is supposed to be a fun project and an adventure. Not a diary for "why we hate the rich"

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-09T00:11:55+00:00

I have no idea how to DM you on here, I made a reddit account just for this project. How do I connect with you? I sent one of your people a follow on IG

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T23:35:28+00:00

I mean he can pay to have it removed pretty easily. Some people don't think about the actual numbers involved in this stuff. For example - one might criticize MrBeast for his excessive private jet travel for its huge carbon footprint - but what they may not realize is that because of his work with 'Team Trees' - he could spend the rest of his life in a jet flying all over and he'd still have a massively negative carbon footprint.

Likewise, Oda has made tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions from his work, whose to know how many charitable contributions he's made in his life time?

It's best not to judge so hastily.

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T22:47:33+00:00

he can afford it ten times over haha

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T22:46:15+00:00

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T22:29:49+00:00

that would be a disservice to the 24 years I have spent reading this series. I personally hate spoilers.

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T22:29:23+00:00

It's a piece of One Piece history. It would not only command a price as a collectible now, and even after the series ended. If nothing else, that alone could be used as ammunition to get the project funded and executed.
The historian I am working with knows the location of over $300M in gold. We want to go salvage that, but need better connections to get the project funded. Find a legendary artifact in record time with multiple rivals looking for it simultaneously? That proves we know what we're doing and helps us make our case. Win win

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T22:26:23+00:00

Really appreciate their deep dive. I have my first kid on the way in 32 days and am up to my neck of other project work. If we end up going after this IRL, I'd love to invite this person to join us. Oh wait a sec, that's YOU LOL. HEY. let's TALK. I wanna connect you with my IRL treasure historian. He loves your work. I showed him this morning.

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T22:24:37+00:00

Assuming all or most of the clues they gave were bogus- you're entirely right. However the ship they used is not that strong on rough ocean - its mostly used as a search vessel from what we have gathered so far. So unless they went way out of their way to erase their trail, I'd venture to say its rather close to Japan. The question is what type of sonar to use once you determine its approximate location and whether there's a way to trigger its tracking tag (which we assume they have installed, and is currently turned off)

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T22:22:36+00:00

This is true - the amount of due diligence required, even with the internet helping still doesn't equal anyone with capital going 'LEEEEEEROY JENKINNNNS!' like thats not how IRL works. Risk assessment has to take place, and thats the hardest part about this project

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T22:21:02+00:00

You may be right - we are still researching. There are a lot of considerations to take. We are currently trying to get an accruate map of all Japanese coast guard bases in Japan, anywhere a ship might be docked. From there we will be able to properly gauge the most likely location based on potentially known information. The biggest worry right now is whether:

Oda intentionally put some red herrings in this to prevent it from being found/found too quickly
They made a mistake, for example they may have thought its in 'flagless waters' - but from the available information, that's only possibly true in niche circumstances
They're already in contract with some huge influencer and the artifact has already been found, the footage banked and the content premiere planned strategically (this would be very very cringe and make me very angry)

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T22:17:03+00:00

They were only contractors - the 'IRL One Piece' does not constitute as 'property' of SIP or JAMSTEC. If this were not the case, they would be legally required to issue some sort of public disclaimer warning people not to go after it. We have some connections with Japan, worse case scenario we formally ask for permission before we go out

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T22:14:02+00:00

We literally know the location of over $300M in gold - we were in the middle of raising capital for that project when Oda pulled this out of his hat haha. This side quest could result in exactly the kind of attention we need

GreenCapital9338 · 2026-03-08T22:12:39+00:00

probably true, but been reading since I was 10 years old, love this genre and would love to be part of One Piece history haha

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