What is the most convoluted way you can come up with to make money with a time machine?

What is the most convoluted way you can come up with to make money with a time machine?

Hard mode: no "money is useless if you have a time machine" arguments

Go back in time and buy art by now-famous artists when they're young and broke. Like, trade a few bottles of wine and a nice dinner for a quick portrait from Rembrandt, then bring it to the present and sell it for millions.

>most convoluted

Maybe go back in time and screw up every way anybody else ever get rich. Keep doing that until eventually you are the only one who gets money. Then stop.

Collect gold fillings from concentration camps.

Go forward in time, buy a copy of whatever book is the bestseller, take it back in time, publish it under an assumed name, leave said assumed name's estate to yourself in your will.

why do you need to go forward in time at all?

because you can't take a best selling book from the past, can you?

you can take them from right now

Not if you want to avoid detection you can't, which I assume is OP's reason for wanting a convoluted scheme.

You'd absolutely avoid detection, because the timeline would change that you now wrote the book.

Buy a bottle of the best wine on earth.
Go back in time 4000 years.
Hide it in a cellar underground.
Go back to the present.
Dig it up.
You now have a bottle of the best wine on earth aged 4000 years.
Sell it to some dumb rich motherfucker.
Say you changed your mind and drink everything in front of him.
Have a 4000 year hungover.
Drive your time machine while drunk and run out of gas while you were cruising through the Jurassic era.
Hit a dinosaur.
Attempt to kill yourself with a knife before the dinosaur eats you.
Realize the dinosaur was merely a harmless giant chicken.
Bleed to death.

If the time line changes then you can just murder people, steal their wallets, and take the money back in time and bury it under your house.

Protip: Wine doesn't keep for anything like that long. 100 years is pushing it, you'd have a 4,000 year old bottle of vinegar,

It wouldn't have aged enough and it would be declared a really good fake if any tests were done on it.

Trademark pepe

Go back in time to battles with unexpected outcomes and make bets with hapless contemporaries.

Oof, dark.

Or better yet, just kill the author of the comic he's from before he creates him. BAM, Veeky Forums quality just increased by a ten-fold.

Pic is about 1700 years old, now imagine your 4000 one.

it's not possible to make money with time machine because there is no such thing
what a gay question

Go to the future.
Steal future 3d printer, ala startrek replicators
Go to the past in ancient china
Print Jades and trade it with the Chinese for Silk
Use silk and trade it with Romans for gold/silver
Use the gold/silvers to buy hundreds of acres of land from Rome
Become nobility
Marry some Roman chick and birth some child, tell them of the future events and tell them to make smart decisions so their legacy will survive
Tell them to build up strong armies and keep law/order and allies
Travel to middle ages to see the future family
Tell them to invest in medicine as the plagues about to hit
They make tons of money selling medicine and become powerful/rich as result
Travel to present timeline
Go see my future descendents and see my wealth accumulate over 2000 years of history

>blow it all on porn subscriptions, video games and sex dolls

>go into the future
>throw a rock in the air
>go back to the present
>push the person out of the way and save them from the rock that would hit them
>throw the rock at them because you just invalidated throwing the rock by not throwing it at them by pushing them out of the way of the non existent rock
>steal their money
>go into the past
>hand the person all the money you stole from them as charity
>repeat until they have a ton of cash and steal it all

Stash it in what will eventually become your attic or something

"Invest in medicine, the plague is coming"


The call him...The Doctor

"Invest in medicine, the plague is coming"


They call him...The Doctor