Trading Bitcoin, Productive Assets, and Synthetic Dividends
"In this video, I discuss the risks of trading in and out of Bitcoin, as well as whether it makes post-tax sense to convert some of your Bitcoin holdings into a productive asset or an asset with yield, like stocks, bonds, rental properties, or businesses.
I also discuss how to create a "synthetic dividend" for any asset, including Bitcoin.
Just as it never makes sense to trade back into a hyperinflationary currency like the Turkish lira or Argentine peso, it probably doesn't make sense to liquidate your Bitcoin for USD.
Real estate, stocks, and bonds are great, but they are less portable and more subject to confiscation risks than Bitcoin. There is also the risk that they do not end up preserving your purchasing power as well as Bitcoin.
Bitcoin allows one to sidestep operational risk and confiscation, as well as elude regulatory risk thanks to Bitcoin's portability and confiscation resistance.
Bitcoin is the apex predator of assets. Moving out of it into anything else is more "di-worsification" than diversification, in my opinion."