Hindsight is 20-20 but does not swivel forward. One strategy is to make a habit of staking odd, unusual or long-sighted ideas. You would lose 9 out of 10 stake

Hindsight is 20-20 but does not swivel forward. One strategy is to make a habit of staking odd, unusual or long-sighted ideas. You would lose 9 out of 10 stakes, but hopefully the tenth would cover the losses. I found out about bitcoin around 2010, back when they were still almost CPU-mineable and cost a dime a dozen, and mined a few "just in case they would become galactic credits or something". It sounded like a bizarre idea, but i couldn't think of any solid reason why it can't just became money one day. Later, i got a bunch of Ether because i had a habit of collecting altcoins, and it seemed like something unusual compared to the meaningless forks abound back then. Sometimes you need to understand the tech. I groked the idea of cryptocurrencies quite early, because it's just math and code. But i wasn't aware of Facebook's existence until around 2014, because social networks were some bizarre, unsearchable chat-forum mutants with zero information content or conceivable uses. Even though i am as old as Zuckerberg and had all the knowledge to make one, an idea of social network would never have occurred to me. So, there is some degree of personal alignment and aptitude - if you are not in a certain field, it's hard to get what can have traction and what can not, but if you are familiar with a field, you can detect unusual ideas with potential more often than not. TL;DR: Kinda sorta something like that, no real answer, didn't meaningfully succeed at it either.