Modern weed is all looks no substance.
Old weed had you questioning life for 6 hours straight.
Now it’s just ‘damn this nug is pretty’ and the high gone before your food arrives.
Simply Bitcoin's thread explains that most underestimate retirement needs. An average worker earning $62,000 yearly who contributes 15% to a 401(k) over 30 years accumulates roughly $270,800. This yields only $10,800 in annual withdrawals, far short of replacing income. Inflation erodes value, so $1 million today holds $412,000 purchasing power in 30 years, requiring $150,000 yearly to sustain a $62,000 lifestyle. Comfortable retirement demands $1.2 million to $1.8 million for safe $60,000 withdrawals. Social Security may deplete by 2032-2034.
Most people underestimate the amount of money needed for retirement.
The average full-time worker earns around $62k per year:
Workers with a conservative 15% contribution in their 401(k) after working their butt off gets them around $270,800 after 30 years.
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WATCH: 🇺🇸 Why Agentic Payments are BULLISH for Bitcoin Tax Exemption | Bitcoin Policy Hour Ep 32
On the agent-based economy as a key lever for bitcoin de minimis tax-exemption, and inside the Capitol Hill meeting with BPI. Coinbase, River and and Block to advocate for bitcoin as money.
Feat. @bitcoinpolicy@zackcohen_@zackbshapiro@Bayman11771
Chapters:
0:00 — AI Agents & Agentic Commerce Moving the Needle on Bitcoin Tax
00:30 — Ken Egan's Sonnet vs Opus Controversy
2:48 — How to Use AI Effectively: Prompts, Skills & the Secret Sauce
8:34 — Using AI for School, Work & the Permanent Underclass
16:26 — BPI's Capitol Hill Briefing on Bitcoin De Minimis with Coinbase, Block & River
25:30 — US-Iran Tensions: Peace Deals, Strait of Hormuz & Military Deployments
34:52 — CoinCenter's Llewellyn Privacy Case Dismissed 47:21 — Kentucky Hardware Wallet Backdoor Legislation Walked Down
51:54 — Senate Stablecoin Yield Language & Banks vs Coinbase
Bitcoin just crossed a line most people didn’t think was possible.
For the first time, a U.S. government-backed institution is allowing Bitcoin to be used as collateral for a mortgage. That means you can buy a home without selling your Bitcoin, no capital gains, no liquidation.
This is how the wealthy have always operated: borrow against assets, never sell.
Now it’s available to everyone.
@Timurvural34215@fiatarchive@grok does this really solve all of the problems Grant Cardone said in the original post? If not provide some steelman counterarguments. Use complete sentences.
GRANT CARDONE: "Bitcoin is the real thing."
"Go try to sell $10M worth of Gold today and watch what happens, you're gonna have offers 20-30% below market... and you're not gonna get it tomorrow, much less in 5 minutes."
"Bitcoin is not just money, it is technology. Unlike Gold or Silver or even paper stocks... they can just keep printing the paper forever."
@cryptofergani Ask AI if anything fundamentally changed with BTC. Did someone figure out how to make more than 21 million? For example. Is it still unconfiscatable? Still permissionless? If the technology is still the same then back up the truck and buy the dip!
My body still gets a small adrenaline hit when the price drops fast.
But my mind now says “this is just the game” and moves on.
The gap between body and mind is getting smaller.
How has your physical reaction to price changed over time?
Help me out!!
I can wipe out all debt and still stack some more bitcoin.
Or
Stack bitcoin 100% and continue to make the monthly payments on debt.
What would you do?
Any other suggestions?
@JoelHodlman There is almost zero debt that makes sense to pay off vs buying Bitcoin and servicing the minimum
Anyone who does that is not interested in net worth, they are interested in peace of mind
Unpopular opinion: Cash Flow is more important than stacking sats, because it is what allows you to stack sats in the first place!
When I was not yet retired, I would focus on generating cash flow online and from my w-2 wage slave job, and I would put some into BTC each day.. why online? Well it is location-independent. Eventually, my goal is to move to a low COL (cost of living) country. Location-independent income streams is how to take advantage of Geo Arbitrage.
I am not waiting for Bitcoin to change my life overnight.
I am waiting for it to still be here when the next big crack in the system happens.
That expectation feels more realistic now, with everything going on.