Day 111 of ICP Over $10,000 — A Thought Experiment
It's day 111 of ICP being over $10,000 in my little fantasy world here, which is clearly not financial advice — I'm not a financial advisor, and I hold thousands of ICP. So obviously this would make me very rich. But the point of this post is to share that often what we think we want has pretty serious negative consequences, and some of us deep down don't want the thing we think we want. Hence my title: ICP at $10,000 might ruin my life. Right now I have thousands of ICP locked indefinitely, and that means I get about one ICP a day. So yes, if ICP was $10,000, I'd make $10,000 a day literally doing nothing but voting.
On the surface, you might think, oh my God, Jerry, that's such a fantasy. If ICP was $10,000 today, I would just lose it — go crazy, like that Eminem song, "Just Lose It." You might think at first, that'd be so awesome, and I have no doubt there would be massive euphoria. I sure would love to pay off my negative $200,000 net worth and buy a house. I would love that. But a lot of times what we don't see is all the negative sides. So let's imagine that it's day 111 — we're about four months in to ICP being over $10,000. Even $10 sounds like a fantasy at this point, doesn't it?
Could ICP Actually Reach $10,000?
Now, this is not a claim that ICP is definitely going to go to $10,000, but it is possible. Based on what I showed on my CryptoTechCap.com website that I made — which is like CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap — this is possible. If ICP was valued the way it deserves to be relative to Bitcoin, Bitcoin should be much lower, at about $200 billion at most, and ICP should be at about $1.8 trillion. So is it feasible ICP could be at about $5 trillion or so to be at $10,000? Absolutely. It's possible, especially if everybody collaborated to manipulate the price of ICP upward so that they could then dump it when it got that high. If basically all the effort spent scamming and deceiving people into buying coins — like all these other ones I've listed on my website — suddenly got shifted into ICP, and it had the truth behind it, the best technology, some governments adopting it, and everybody saying this is the next big thing, we could see a speculative $10,000 for each ICP.
What I Learned From Going Viral
Now, at first, that might be really fun and euphoric. I've gone viral before. I've had celebrities covering me on their shows. I've been talked about everywhere. I've single-handedly influenced entire conversations nationwide in the past. What I know from getting internet famous and viral a few times, and getting over a billion views online, is that when you get a whole lot of attention all at once, it generally creates more problems than opportunities. You can have people in your family not talking to you because of what you said online. And in the case of having a whole bunch of money all at once, look at people who've won the lottery. Usually, winning the lottery ruins someone's life. In some cases they didn't have much of a life beforehand, but whatever life they had just gets destroyed by winning it.
If ICP suddenly, or even fairly gradually over the next three or four years, trended from $2 to $10,000, I'm going to be very famous, along with Bobby O, Blockchain Pill, Zero to Hero, and Michael Duffy 2.0. And if you're an ICP creator and you're not on that list, maybe you should join the family so I can remember your name. If that happens, I will be very famous, because I've been covering this for years, and I'm in position to get a whole lot of views.
When Everybody Wants a Handout
So first off, yes, I'll be a multiple deca-millionaire if ICP goes over $10,000. And you might think that's purely positive. Well, what happens when I'm making $10,000 a day on ICP, literally having to do nothing but place a few votes, and everybody knows that? Everybody's going to want a handout, aren't they? Jerry, buy me a new car. Jerry, this broke at my house. Jerry, can you send me some money for my kid to go to college? That's even where I'm at now. Sometimes I'll have friends and family members hit me up, even though I shared in a recent video on my Jerry Banfield channel how I'm a 42-year-old single dad with a net worth of negative $200,000. You would think nobody would hit me up in that case, right? Well, I still get hit up, even in that.
Imagine if everybody knows — because this is all very public — that I've got ICP, I've been covering it, and I'm getting $10,000 a day. How many people are going to come knocking? Can I even have real friends? Can I even make new friends anymore? I will just assume every single person I'm coming across only cares about my money and my influence.
Money and Dating: Why Today Is Actually Better
Then there's my dating. I imagine I'm going to make quite a bit of money and be worth quite a bit in the future. Even if ICP goes to $1,000, I'm going to be a multimillionaire, and I'll be making $1,000 a day just voting. I think I have a very bright future ahead of me. And right now, I'm in a great place to date, because I can find a woman who I can have confidence actually loves me for me. The more money you start to pile up, the harder that gets. I know a guy locally who's got a good bit of money, and he always thinks his wife is just with him for his money. From my point of view, that's a significant reason she's there. Maybe not all of it, but a significant reason.
When I was with my ex, I knew she wasn't with me for my money because I had almost none when we met. I was in grad school, living off of student loans — which I guess is not a whole lot different than how I'm living 15 years later on credit lines. By the way, this Skool community is going to blow up. You don't have to figure out ICP yourself — join the Jerry Banfield Family.
Imagine $10,000 ICP on day 111. Everything I do to make money has blown up. At this point, I'm a multimillionaire — my net worth might be $100 million between the ICP, all my YouTube channels, my website, and all the money I'm making on my communities. I have stupid amounts of money coming in, but I will be getting harassed all the time everywhere I go.
No More Anonymity in St. Pete
Everybody in St. Pete will know who I am. I can't go to a yoga class without, oh, it's Jerry Banfield, can I get a picture? Hey, it's Jerry, can you take a picture with my son? Jerry, can you sign this autograph — while I'm eating or feeding my daughter. Do not come and speak to me. That's how it'll be. Everywhere I try to go, anywhere around town: oh, it's Jerry. Hey, Jerry, you got $100?
I was at a stoplight the other day, and there was a whole family with football jerseys and signs. When people ask me for money in person, I always give them $20, so I gave one of them the $20 I always give. That one went and told the whole rest of the family, and they all barraged my car — there were like five of them all over it. I gave another one $20, and they immediately took off flying somewhere. I don't know if they were going to the trap house or the grocery store or the liquor store, but they were sprinting out of there with that $20. Then I went to give to a mom and two kids, and the mom and the kids fought over the money and ripped the $20 bill, and the daughter was crying on the side of the street. I pulled off like, see ya. That was interesting. But imagine that all the time, everywhere I go. Everywhere I go, people saying, hey, you're rich, give me $100. And I probably would only carry hundreds.
When Every Woman Throws Herself at You
Then imagine that for my wife, because I'll probably have a wife by then. I couldn't keep them away. Right now, I went out with about 20 women this year. I imagine if I was still single at $10,000 ICP, I'd have a significant portion of all the single women — the hottest and the not hottest — throwing themselves at me. I have a friend in his late 70s who told me a woman in her 20s was trying to talk to him about fathering a child with her and then supporting her financially. And this guy has a much smaller amount of wealth than I would have at $10,000 ICP.
Now, you would think at first that would sound awesome, right? You'd think, oh my God, that's such a fantasy — I'd love for every single woman to throw themselves at me. This is why you've got to think through your fantasies in detail. What happens? Well, not every single woman, because some people wouldn't do that — and I'd probably have gay guys throwing themselves at me, too. Imagine when everywhere I go, people are asking me for money. That'd get annoying real fast. And then women just come up to me: oh, hey, you're Jerry. Can I get your phone number? Can we go out sometime? Can you have my babies? Can we have sex in the back of this car right now? I'll let you get me pregnant. That sounds good on the surface, right?
But ask people who have been through that, and it gets rough, because what happens when something goes wrong? What happens when you get the wrong woman back to your house and she makes up allegations to try to get some money off you? What happens when 50 people all file lawsuits against me? Because right now I'm not a very attractive person to file a lawsuit against — you aren't getting anything. You can't take water from a dry well. I'm operating on credit. That's why I run my car insurance as low as possible: I don't need to insure much because there isn't much to take. I've got a YouTube studio and a house that I rent, but you aren't getting anything from me right now. At $10,000 ICP, everybody would be wanting something. And how can I trust anybody? How can I trust a woman who just throws herself at me — that she's not going to try to pull something to get a whole bunch of money out of me?
The 50 Cent Problem: No Amount Is Ever Enough
How long after she sleeps with me is she going to be like, hey, I'm behind on my rent, can you give me a couple thousand? And when I give her a couple thousand, she's like, what is this? A couple thousand, you cheap bastard? You're getting $10,000 a day. I just slept with you. Why are you only giving me $2,000? Now, that might sound ridiculous to you, but go read Curtis Jackson — aka 50 Cent. Read his book and listen to where he talks about how he will buy somebody a car, and they come to him like, hey, listen, Curtis, that's messed up. All you bought me was a car. You bought this guy a house — why did you just buy me a car, Curtis? Come on, man, that isn't right. I need a house, too. Can you imagine people approaching you with that attitude all the time?
Can you imagine how long it'd take before you got sick of being around the general public, and then you had to get some mansion away from everybody so you could stop being treated like that? Can you imagine how small my life would get when I couldn't go to my regular AA meetings anymore? I've seen football coaches, celebrities, and musicians at AA meetings before, and it's disgusting how some people operate — going up to a football coach in a meeting like, hey, can I get a picture with you? I'm like, dude, that's gross. Don't do that. But can you imagine my life? Certain things would be better, and some would be awesome, but there would be some serious downsides.
What the Haters Already Look Like at 4,000 Views
I invite you to look honestly at things instead of fantasizing, because when you can look honestly, you can't stay lost in the fantasy. I don't fantasize about $10,000 ICP. I don't go around being all lustful after it, thinking, oh man, come on, we need to go up there. And when I look at the reactions on X — you should see these comments on X. What the fuck is crazy over there. I've never heard such self-serving bullshit in my life. One guy calling himself a genius is out here saying I'm divorced and spending money on prostitutes for dating advice. I've not spent any money on that — I've paid for a dating coach. Look at my X comments right now. I've just got this little account with a couple thousand followers and 4,000 views on a post, and thank you to Bobby for actually giving me a decent comment there, and I guess bringing a few pumpers back to IC.
So can you imagine how much shit everybody would be talking about me constantly at $10,000 ICP? You'd have a lot of people patting me on the back, but what sinks in a lot of times is the negative stuff. Can you imagine if everywhere I went online, people were talking shit about Jerry Banfield? They'd probably be mostly like the people around Mr. Beast. Mr. Beast has an absolute army of haters on YouTube — well earned, some would say. He posts a video where he cured a thousand people's blindness. He flies all over the world, pays for a thousand different people to get a surgery so they can see again, shows the reactions, and the internet absolutely explodes talking shit. And he's like, I don't understand — I went around and helped a whole bunch of people. I paid for a thousand people who wouldn't have been able to see without this, and I get huge amounts of shit for it.
Even $2,000 ICP Would Be Exhausting
One of the nice scenarios might just be $100 or $200 ICP. That would be nice validation — it'd be pretty clear, all right, I was right about this, everything's cool. But $2,000 ICP? Even getting to $2,000, you start to get up there, and I promise you, by day 111, even at $2,000 ICP, I'm exhausted. At $10,000 ICP, I probably have to pay two off-duty police officers to be around me at all times to stop people from doing stupid stuff. I remember seeing Tommy Lee Jones at Six Flags when I was a kid. He's a celebrity, but he's going around with a team of bodyguards when he's just trying to go to Six Flags.
So I hope this little thought experiment helps you see that yes, ICP pumping can certainly be good for our wallets, but this is more of a spiritual kind of thing. Everything has its ups and downs. Am I interested to experience ICP being at much higher levels? Absolutely. Do I think ICP deserves much higher levels? Absolutely. Do I think the price going up is going to make my life fundamentally better? That's where I disagree. No. ICP could just stay here or go to zero, and my life could be just fine. ICP could go to $10,000 and mess my life up beyond any kind of recognition. And yes, I probably could deal with it, but I enjoy not having to go to court over lawsuits. I enjoy that people aren't asking me for things all the time everywhere I go. I enjoy having enough internet fame to get attention, but not so much that it's crazy. Jimmy has ruined his life with his Mr. Beast channel in that sense — he'll never be able to go anywhere on earth without being recognized. He's stuck being that indefinitely.
Enjoying the Differences Today
So I invite you to be honest about what your dreams really look like. Think about how your life would actually change if ICP went to $10,000, and how you can enjoy what's different today. Enjoy the differences in the positive today. I enjoy the dating today because it's honest — I don't have women coming after me for my money, which is nice. I can just date person to person and see who's compatible. I don't have people asking me for stuff all the time. I can take my kids anywhere anonymously and not get bothered. Life is pretty easy and straightforward today. At $10,000 ICP, four months in, my life gets real complicated. There's all kinds of stuff I have to figure out and all kinds of things I have to do to adjust my life.
I can also kind of run my mouth on my videos at this point, because I've got four and a half million impressions in the last hundred and some days since I restarted. But give me a million views on every video, and I'm going to have a lawyer go over everything I say. I won't be able to just talk like this when I'm getting that many impressions, because every little thing you say when you have a lot of people watching is a potential lawsuit. It's potential death threats. I've had my share of death threats, and the more famous you get, the more of them you get — you attract more and more crazy people. I've had things happen to people in my life as a result of me going viral online just a time or two that they've asked me not even to talk about. And I'm very grateful for all the friends I have today, because I know those are real friends. At $10,000 ICP, I don't know if I could hardly make any real friends. I'd be stuck trying to be friends with other deca-millionaires and celebrities. I'd have a very small social circle. I love going to the grocery store — I wouldn't be able to just take my silly self to the grocery store anymore. I'd have to pay somebody to go for me so I didn't get mobbed. Jimmy says he has about five minutes after he goes into any public place before everybody starts taking pictures and it goes viral. I'm not at that level. But at $10,000 ICP, we'd be getting up there.
You Don't Have to Figure Out ICP Alone
Thanks for participating in this thought experiment with me. If you're stuck on anything with ICP, you don't have to figure it out alone. The Jerry Banfield Family is here for you, and I'm here for you. We've got Blockchain Pill in there, Scouse Will is in there, and others from the ICP community are ready. You can share your ICP question or your project, and you can get feedback and clear next steps if you're stuck on staking or anything like that. We are there to support you in using ICP with confidence and being ready for $10,000 ICP if and when it ever does happen. You can also find years of my ongoing coverage in my ICP Crypto playlist.
And this post gives the haters something nice to talk about — how delusional I am for putting out $10,000 ICP. I'll just say this: there's a lot more realistic chance of $10,000 ICP than $10,000 for any of these other shitcoins. Not Bitcoin, really, or Ethereum — that's pretty reasonable for them, too. But XRP, Solana, Cardano, all that? No. $10,000 ICP is the realest. All right, I've got to stop talking.