Here are the basic facts as I know them.I moved to this part of the country (NW Arkansas) 1.5 years ago following a career on Wall Street as a derivatives trader.

Real Estate Investing is not like buying Bitcoin and waiting for it to pop to Sell at an unpredictable Profit.

Several of the world's most talented traders, economists and businessmen try to do it and most fail.

Try boat trader for the value of the boat?

and then the mother of them all bit coin at the top :)

There is a lot of commercial development occurring in that expo/usc neighborhood- they broke ground on the George Lucas Museum, the LA Football Club, renovations to the Coliseum has begun, Honda is moving in a dealership on King, and the opening of USC Village (which includes Trader Joes and Target). 2.

Or have her get it in bit coin and transfer it to you so you know it’s not funny money.

A new company called Salt Lending is giving out short term loans with your crypto as collateral (just bitcoin and ethereum atm) up to and over 1 million.    

I say software engineers are still grossly underpaid compared to traders and investment bankers on Wall Street.

Most individuals look for much higher return rate than banks.A similar situation is that a retail equity trader looks for much higher return rate than hedge funds.