A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️

-THE ISLAND LIFE-

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THE GAME IS EXITING THE SYSTEM

It's easy to buy #bitcoin it's hard to exit the matrix.

It would require a lender with a long term view to Bitcoin who is not afraid of dips. It could be somewhat over collateralized (like 35% instead of 20%). The collateral would be the combined value of the equity in the home and the Bitcoin so overtime as the value of the home and Bitcoin increases in fiat terms the loan should become increasingly favorable for the lender. If carried to term the Bitcoin is released to the borrower when paid off. If paid off early, the lender could charge a small fee taken from the Bitcoin. That gives the lender Bitcoin upside in the event the borrower retires the loan early. 🤷‍♂️

I’m going to say it again: I want a mortgage that will accept Bitcoin collateral in lieu of a fiat down payment.

I do not want a mortgage that requires locking up the full fiat value of the house in Bitcoin collateral.

Hypothetically speaking, let's say you accumulated ₿1. 💭

What would be the purpose of attaining it?

Like… what would be the intent behind having a whole #Bitcoin & how would you actually utilize it?

We're all obviously stacking as much #BTC as possible, but I am genuinely curious as to everyone's underlying WHY.

What's the core reason for your accumulation & desired outcome from doing so? 💁‍♂️

#asknostr

💯. I think it means the market has more and more people who want your corn 🌽. Some retail, some institutional. Don’t let them have it until someone gives you goods and services that you really want more than you want monetary savings.

The “wealthy” are taking profits and rebalancing their brokerage portfolios while plebs around the world are saving more discounted sats. This is healthy.

The “wealthy” are taking profits and rebalancing their brokerage portfolios while plebs around the world are saving more discounted sats. This is healthy.