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 And we are just getting started. #Bitcoin is pure deflationary economics. It is wild.

For everyone else, here's how it works more or less
You sell lump sum real estate for bitcoin, you acquire more lump sum bitcoin than you ever would acquire being divested into real estate trying to recuperate your opportunity cost by saving cash flow/rents in bitcoin. You'll just never hit the lump sum amount of BTC you could have had by selling. This is because of the exponential growth/adoption of an ABSOLUTELY SCARCE (INFINITE VALUE) SECURE DIGITAL ASSET. You'll never catch up trying to stack bitcoin with rental cash flow, when all your massive equity is in the property itself instead of bitcoin.

And it only gets worse the longer you hold the real estate.

The only time this conclusion changes is AFTER HYPERBITCOINIZATION, as bitcoin "returns/performance" cool off due to global saturation/adoption. Then investing in opportunities like business/real estate may make sense again, but that is far, far into the future (30-50 years, I'd say lol)

When vast majority of landlords do what SPEEDSTER here is experimenting with, real estate prices become affordable for families who need/want to own a primary residence, instead of being milked by landlords who are simultaneously losing the race against a bitcoin-only or bitcoin-predominant allocation.

The last question that remains is how to balance the genuine need for cash flow for people like retirees. The solution in my opinion may/is economically indeed be to incrementally sell that bitcoin lump sum to pay for monthly expenses, and live off the exponential return of bitcoin. This takes discipline but I believe it pays off massssssively and is the way to go, especially for retirees who have halted their POW/income activities.