Dunno why people are saying to buy houses etc..
Your goal in the 2020's and beyond should be digital assets. The world is going ultra digital. AI, Crypto, Metaverse, VR. There's no going back.
What a dumb idea it is to get rid of bitcoin 3 months before the halving, with a bull run due within 6-8 months.
There's no investment in the world that'll make you a 4-5x return in a year. Smaller ones within businesses, but where can you put $200 mil and turn it into $800 mil? Nowhere. No company in the world is going to do that in a year.
My goal is to acquire as much of a certain crypto as possible. I won't say which, because I'm watching and enjoying the price go down and buying it up.
But bitcoin is a solid buy for a guaranteed 4x, potentially a 5-6x, but probably not more than a 4.8x from current price.
If you have just 25 bitcoin you're set for life. Providing you don't sell it like a chump. In 10 years it'll peak at $600k and bottom out at $400k inbetween bull runs.
In 15 even higher, but if you can just hold 25 coins for 10 years, you're going to have around $10 mil in net worth. You can take a loan out for $1mil against that bitcoin and grow a business with it, and another loan for $1 mil to buy a house. When your bitcoin grows a year later, you take out another loan, and pay back the last.
Year 1: Loan of $X, with 2 bitcoin as collateral.
Year 2: Loan of $X with 1.7 bitcoin as collateral.
Year 3: Loan of $X with 1.4 bitcoin as collateral.
Year 20: Loan of $x (I'm not doing the math here, as it's not important, it's just to give you an idea of how this works) with 0.02 bitcoin as collateral.
Year 50: Loan of $x with 0.0000002 bitcoin as collateral.
And THAT is why you don't sell your bitcoin for stupid dollars, folks.
Why would you do that other than selling near a bull peak to buy back when it drops?
Even at that, once you hit certain wealth you don't do that. It's not even worth it. You just keep buying and holding.
When you sell, you have tax to pay.
When you take a loan out against something, you have ZERO tax to pay, and on top of that, the interest you can deduct from your income to pay even LESS tax.
WEALTHY PEOPLE DO NOT SELL ASSETS!
(Generally speaking. Sometimes you will, but the goal is to accumualte assets over your lifetime, not to buy and sell and hold stupid dollars which are useless)
Poor people want $$$
Wealthy people want assets.
Also, I know this is a time-waster thread. My comment isn't aimed at the OP, but the people suggesting "someone" who holds btc, should sell it and buy a house.