Okay... There are a lot of historians in here, and that sure is enviable. I could choose the time of William Shakespeare, I spent most of my college life studying his plays. But really, if you put a gun to my head and said you get to pick one place and time, I'm a man of material means.

I'm taking my time machine back to 2009 and convincing myself to start mining the Bitcoin.

You see, back in 2009 I was involved in a lot of computer schemes, MLM marketing mostly, get rich quick kind of stuff. Sitting at my computer for hours on end clicking through the pay per click sites and things of that nature. I sunk a couple thousand bucks in to various money making opportunities which only served to make the people I sent the money to rich. One of them actually ended up getting arrested and going to prison for fraud, Wellspring Capital Group Blake Prater. I still remember that pretty vividly in 2007.

So I'm going back and mining, and telling myself to sell the 2017 top. Of course I'd have enough BTC to hold on to some for the future, but selling enough in 2017 that my family never needs to worry about money again.

I'd probably give myself a list including STEEM and a few other alt coins that I could invest in for long term growth.

Then the question comes up of trying to figure out who is Satoshi. Do I need that knowledge? I really kind of think I don't. I could certainly keep the secret, but being able to make my family secure is really the important factor here. Knowledge is great, but secondary. Who is behind BTC doesn't really matter in the long term. Though maybe I would tell Dan Larimer that partnering with Ned was a really bad idea and change the future of STEEM.

I'm probably over 200 words and thus disqualified from the contest, but it's all good. Fun to hypothesize!