Why are you foreseeing that increase in gold over the years?

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Real estate has been the king of wealth for centuries. 🏠

But the next 20 years? #Bitcoin will crush it as the go-to store of value.

And here’s the shocking part: Owning a house might actually make you poorer.

Let’s break it down. 🧵👇

For decades, real estate was the ultimate inflation hedge:

• Land is finite.

• It appreciates over time.

• It generates passive income.

But now, Bitcoin offers something infinitely better.

No tenants. No maintenance. No taxes.

And it can be sold in seconds.

The problem

Buying a house ties up hundreds of thousands in capital. You’re stuck with property taxes, insurance, and repairs for decades.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin appreciates faster, costs nothing to hold, and stays 100% liquid.

Which one really builds wealth?

Some will say: "But real estate is stable and safe."

Is it?

• Mortgage rates are skyrocketing.

• Governments are targeting landlords with higher taxes.

• Maintenance costs are rising with inflation.

And most people buy with debt—making them slaves to the bank.

Now compare that to Bitcoin

• No middlemen.

• No need for debt.

• Your wealth is portable.

You can move across the globe and take your Bitcoin with you.Try doing that with a house in the suburbs.

The real kicker?

Bitcoin is still in its early adoption phase.

• Only ~4% of the world owns Bitcoin.

• Institutions are just starting to buy in.

The upside is exponential. Real estate? It’s already tapped out in most markets.

But there’s a cultural shift happening too.

For generations, owning a home was a status symbol. A sign of financial security.

Now?

Smart people are renting their entire lives.They’re saving in Bitcoin instead—and coming out ahead.

Why?

Because buying a house isn’t the dream it once was. It’s a liability dressed up as an asset.

You’re tied to one location. You’re paying banks and governments endlessly.And your “wealth” is trapped in an illiquid, slow-moving market.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin is:

• Tax-advantaged (in most jurisdictions).

• Easy to store securely.

• Liquid 24/7 across the globe.

And it performs like this: 📈

• Last 10 years: +1,000,000%

• Last 5 years: +400%

• Last 2 years: +50%

What’s real estate doing?

Here’s the big picture:

The world is moving from physical assets to digital assets.

We stream movies.

We store files in the cloud.

We transact with apps.

Why wouldn’t our wealth also go digital? Bitcoin is inevitable.

The implications are massive:

The wealthy will store their value in Bitcoin.

The middle class will cling to real estate—and fall behind.

This shift will redefine the class structure of the 21st century. Don’t get left on the wrong side of it.

But let’s be real:

This won’t happen overnight. Real estate still has its place—for now.

But over the next two decades, the cracks will widen:

• Bitcoin adoption grows.

• Real estate becomes harder to own.

And the shift will be unstoppable.

So, what’s the play?

Stop thinking of your house as your biggest asset. It’s not.

Start thinking of Bitcoin as your wealth foundation. It’s simple, scalable, and sovereign.

A system designed for you—not the banks or the government.

The bottom line?

Real estate isn’t the ultimate store of value anymore.

Bitcoin is.

No taxes. No tenants. No maintenance.

It’s the future of wealth-building—and the smartest hedge against inflation.

Are you ready for this shift? 🚀

What do you think?

Will Bitcoin redefine wealth in the 21st century? Or is real estate still king?

Let’s discuss in the comments 👇

And if you’re ready to take the leap into Bitcoin, start learning now. The future won’t wait.

💯

1. OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) estimates:

- The global shadow economy is equivalent to 13-15% of worldwide GDP, amounting to $11-13 trillion annually.

2. Study by Friedrich Schneider:

- The size of the global shadow economy was equivalent to about 31.9% of official GDP in 2020.

3. IMF (International Monetary Fund) report:

- The average size of the shadow economy across 158 countries was around 31.9% of official GDP between 1991-2015.

4. Journal of Economic Surveys paper:

- The size of the shadow economy was equivalent to 35-44% of official GDP in developing countries.

- The size of the shadow economy was equivalent to 15-17% of official GDP in OECD countries.

5. Global Financial Integrity organization:

- The value of illicit financial flows (a major component of the grey economy) was estimated to be $1.6 - $4.6 trillion per year.

6. OECD statement:

- The shadow economy can be as large as 50-60% of official GDP in some developing countries.

Where will corporations and nations turn when OTC #Bitcoin supply runs out? They’ll be forced to bid directly on the open market — that’s when the real price discovery begins. Fasten your seatbelt.

I got paid in fiat this morning and before noon, I've paid my fiat bills for the month and moved the remainder into cold storage.

Over the last 4 years I've been getting closer and closer to zero fiat between paydays.

I dont care what the btc fiat price is at when I get paid, I just humbly stack the sats I can.

I keep track of the # of manhours that I save each month.

ex. 1 manhour of fiat mining = ~$50/hr. I exchange $1000 for bitcoin, ive saved 20 hours of my time.

as the purchasing power of Bitcoin increases, the hour count saved increases, and I can prove to myself that by saving in btc I am saving myself many many hours of fiat mining.

#bitcoin is amazing

I’ve been thinking a lot about the time when all #Bitcoin will be mined. When that happens, no more Bitcoin rewards for each new block added to the blockchain, instead, the reward to the #miners will be transaction fees.

In this scenario, transaction fees on the #Bitcoin blockchain will have to be very high to pay all the energy being spent to protect the network.

So, in theory, the main network will only be used for high networth transactions that compensate the high fees required, which means, #Bitcoin will price out transaction of low value, and thus discriminate people with few sats.

Any thoughts on this?

"NEW: MICROSOFT SHAREHOLDERS VOTE NO ON #BITCOIN TREASURY

THIS WILL GO DOWN AS A HISTORIC MISTAKE 👏"

No one will convince me they don't already own a vast store.

If you stop the energy leak of inflation in your unit of account, your life transforms from constant hustle to lasting peace. #Bitcoin.

Not surprised

Though almost everyone and their grandmother focuses on it, few understand that the fiat price of #bitcoin is generally irrelevant.

Bitcoin is Prices Go Down Forever technology… and will long outlast all government fiat currencies.

You can quote me on this.

Learn to price your world in bitcoin, instead of pricing your bitcoin in transient fiat currency.

bought his home March 2023

this story is old as #Bitcoin itself

2024-12-07, 23:59 UTC

232 days after halving

Current: $99,977.70

2012 scaled: $439,306.91

2016 scaled: $115,576.24

2020 scaled: $214,069.22

When I was 18, I was severely depressed. With good reason. I’d fucked up high school. Drugs and drinking had a hold on me. My grades were shit. My friends were addicts. My mother, a schizophrenic, was having a serious year-long episode. She was institutionalized. Wrapped her car around a telephone pole. Almost died. The cops were at our house a lot. My father was dead inside. Burnt out, and numb. Numb. There was severe emotional neglect and chaos throughout my childhood. I had no hope for the future. Completely lost, purposeless, and drifting. Purposeless. Drifting. I wasn’t fully suicidal. Like there weren’t any plans in place, but I thought about it a lot. A voice in the back of my mind told me there had to be a way out. I know now that it was god speaking to me.

I listened to that voice. I stopped doing drugs. I drank less. I began to hike every day in the mountains by myself. The sun, the air, the solitude. I loaded up an old iPod. I listened to the Beatles, a lot of classical music, and audiobooks. I didn’t hang out with my friends anymore. I just hiked every day by myself. I got a shitty fast-food job. I used to stay late to clean and just think about my life. I enjoyed the structure. Soon, they made me the assistant manager. I was the only one who was dependable, I guess. I went to community college. I actually applied myself for the first time ever. I got straight A’s. I hooked up with a lot of girls, that was helpful for my mood and self-esteem. I used my grades to get into a good college. I wanted to get across the country. To get away from it all. I went to Chicago.

College was fun. There were lots of girls, lots of parties. I was in film school and actually interested in what I was learning. Everything was amazing. My family is from rural Illinois. I used to visit my grandfather on the weekends sometimes. He was one of my favorite people. In the winter, he got sick. We found out he had leukemia. I got depressed again. I stopped going to college. I spent a lot of time out in the country. It felt more important to be with him as he died. I was there when he passed.

I came home for the summer. The great financial crisis was going on. My friend got one of those Obama new home buyer loans, so we spent the summer having parties and playing beer pong in his garage. One night, the girl I was going to marry walked in. I knew it right away. I didn’t feel like going back to Chicago. So I stayed and went to state school. I started dating the girl that would one day become my wife. I still was partying too much. Binge drinking. I couldn’t escape the feeling I was wasting my potential. Fucked around and did DMT one day. Blast off. Full-on cosmic panic attack. The overarching message: “Your time here on Earth is temporary. So get to work.”

Fuck, okay. So I got serious about my life… again, and I changed everything… again. I had been lazy and unmotivated. I began to focus intently on my craft. I attended every lecture. I made connections. I worked on everyone’s sets. I won the school film festival. I started a production company with a friend while still in school. It took off. We were making good money. We dropped out and did the business full time. I asked the girl to marry me. She said yes.

I found Bitcoin. I took all the profits from the business and put it into Bitcoin. I convinced my fiancé to put her salary into Bitcoin too. We were frugal to the point of being weirdos. We bought a little condo, and we got married. Bitcoin went up like crazy. We had a kid. Bitcoin went down like crazy. My father got sick. We took care of him when he died. I assumed responsibility for my mother. We had another kid. My wife’s parents got divorced, and my mother-in-law was left penniless. I assumed responsibility for her as well. My mother had another multi-year schizophrenic episode. Cops, hospitals, chaos. Then she got cancer. We had another kid. After a short battle with cancer, my mother died.

Then Bitcoin crashed 80% again. We had our fourth kid. For the first time in a long time, nothing happened. It was quiet. Bitcoin steadily rose. I spent time with the kids. There was no chaos. Just peace.

When Bitcoin hit 100k. I took a look around at my loving wife, our warm home decorated for Christmas, my four beautiful children, and I felt that it had all been worth it.

Whatever you’re going through…

Keep going.

I am sure that worked great because It went from 30K-ish to $104K this year. But now, it's at a high so we should expect a big dip soon and then your Strike Method will not really be worth it

Strike Bill Pay seems not worth it.

If you have $1000 put on your direct deposit account, BItcoin would have to rise at least $3000 to walk away with $8 in extra buying power after entrance/exit fees. The odds of that happpening between deposit and withdrawal, say autopay, is slim to none

#bitcoin

To think we are dollar cost averaging generational wealth casually. Like ya let me get a few million satoshis like it's nobody's business... because ya this will feed my family for many generations to come.

We are soooo early. We can convert thousands of fiat trash into millions of scarce digital gold. I will forever buy the top for as long as there is fiat trash in my hands.

Being bullish is an understatement. I'm on cloud 9.

#plebnation #bitcoin #freedom

#bitcoin fixes the property price dilemma in Australia

JUST DID MY PART. THAT’S ALL.

#BITCOIN 🚀 nostr:note1rekfw6k476hj7zvvnm82ds9j972cupwsvcudpk89un4pwzr2w93s3sefg9