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OceanSlim | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I must admit, I shitcoiner in my hayday and was able to buy some tires with the profit. This was 4 or 5 years ago. I'm obviously a toxic maxi now... I'm ashamed of that time.
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Silberengel | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Just had to buy two sets of winter tires and repair some brakes. Stuff costs a lot.

Oh well.
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OceanSlim | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Move to GA. We ain't got no snow. Same tires year round.
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pamplemousse 🫎 | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Icky … never would I choose that
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Silberengel | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I think I just arrived too late and too poor, to ever get into the whole NGU thing. As soon as it broke even, every additional price rise just depresses me.

Great, the thing so insanely expensive, that I'll never own one, just got more expensive. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Silberengel | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 One thing that I didn't factor in, is that the declining purchasing power of fiat makes the rising price of Bitcoin less impressive.

€100k sounded like a crazy-big number, even a few years, ago. Now, my neighbor just sold a run-down old house, the middle of nowhere, with oil central heat, for over €800k.

It's like... 1 Bitcoin will soon buy 1/8th of a dump in a 5-cow town, that you'll immediately have to bulldoze. 😂🙈
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ABH3PO | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Don't disagree. But I also think Bitcoin will come for real estate sooner later.
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Flow | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Bitcoin doesn’t really appreciate in value compared to fiat (outside of bubbles like now) it preserves value over time. The key is value and time, not currency.
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Silberengel | 2 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yeah, it basically stays stable or rises steadily, while most other assets slowly decline, as they lose their monetary premium.
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Chris Liss | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Right, that's why price predictions are so dumb. “It’ll be $1M next year!” Yeah, but what does $1M buy then? 

All price predictions need to be in 2024 USD, so if you say $1M it might nominally be $20M. But $20M meaning $1M 2024 dollars. 

That said, it *should* vastly outpace inflation, and you will even with a fraction of one be able to buy some choice real estate!
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Gojiberra | 2 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 i read this book in 2006 starting college:
 A Million Bucks by 30: How to Overcome a Crap Job, Stingy Parents, and a Useless Degree to Become a Millionaire Before (or After) Turning Thirty

So i looked at the price of a 3 bedroom house, no-frills house on the street in 2006:
$999,999 

height of 2022 craze: 
$3,000,000

So this book title in my case should be updated to : 

3 million bucks by 40: how to finally admit my fancy degree didn't help, admit parents were right about newfangled ideas and objective truth, and maybe survive a  covid vaccine to finally afford a 3 bedroom house.

the book itself was quite interesting. the guy kept buying real estate in new york city in gentrifying neighborhoods using leverage until finally he bought a whole apartment building with his own bar in the ground floor.
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Gojiberra | 2 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My starting price was off, but the 3x factor was right. The house was 300k in 2006 and now 1,000,000. That's 300k per bedroom ... Kids are expensive!