But I think you forgot your initial suggestion which was don't sell BTC take loan and buy house, so then risk wise still high since person has to make interest payments for loan ongoing+loan capital repayment, hope don't get margin called and hope BTC is stable and doesn't face huge sell off leading to liquidation....
Yeah but you're not selling your bitcoin. They just hold it as collateral.
The loan capital repayment is not an issue..
Remember, this isn't meant for someone who has 1-2 bitcoin and wants a big loan from all their bitcoin to buy something stupid.
This is for when you have 20 bitcoin, and bitcoin is worth $80k at the bottom(ie 2026).
You take a loan with 2 bitcoin and you get 0.4 * $80k * 2 = $64k.
1 year later(2027) bitcoin will be worth, let's say $110k-$120k
How do you pay back that $80k?
0.4 * $120k * x = $64k
x = 64k / 0.4*120k
x = 1.33
You take another loan and send 1.3 of your remaining 18 bitcoin.
You get $64k.
You pay back the principle and get back your 2 bitcoin.
You've now got 18.67 bitcoin.
You repeat this every year.
In 50 years you get a loan for $64k, and you send 0.01 bitcoin.
Make sense?
You never pay tax.
You never give up your bitcoin.
You never have to pay back the principle.
The only thing you pay is the interest, which you do from your income.
Right now the interest is 15%, but in a few years when you'd start this you'll be able to get it for 5-8% from institutions.
You don't NEED it now, this is for when you've spent 10 years building up your bitcoin and you have the question "Ok, now what?"
5% of $64k is only $3200 per year, or $266 per month.
BUT REMEMBER!
You are NOT taking bitcoin loans to buy a car, or a TV or some other "consumer item".
Otherwise you're setting yourself up for a lifetime of interest for that TV or car, which doesn't make sense.
The loan is NOT because you can't afford something. That's not how rich people use loans.
The loan is TO MAKE MONEY.
This is how the wealthy get wealthier. They DO NOT SELL ASSETS EVER.
They accumulate assets over their lifetime.
You have $200 million of bitcoin. Great. That bitcoin doesn't make you any money. It's just a store of value.
Want to buy a business that costs $10 million?
Don't sell $10 million of bitcoin.
Take a loan with 5% * 1/0.4 = 12.5% of your bitcoin. (That's a 40% loan to asset ratio)
Pay $500k in interest over year 1.
But what does that business you bought for $10 mil make?
A good business sells for about 3-6x EBIDTA depending on different factors, so that business should make $3 mil profit per year at about 3.3x EBIDTA.
Loan interest payments: $41.6k/month
Business profit: $250,000k per month
Total profit: $208.40k per month.
Total assets - $200 million + $10 million = $210 million
Total liabilities - $10.5 million
Current net worth = $199.5 million
Current income = $2.5 million net per year
Old net worth = $200 million
Old income = $0
You've given up half a mil net worth for $2.5 mil per year income.
End of year 1
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Buy $2.5 million of bitcoin, or $2 million and use the $500k for your lifestyle expenses.
Current net worth = $201.5 million
Liabilities = $10 million
Take another bitcoin loan. Bitcoin has gone up 30%..
This time you send 77% of the bitcoin you sent last time.
You get $10 million. You pay back the last loan, you get your full bitcoin back.
You now have 30% of last year's bitcoin used as collateral back. So if last year you had to give 10 bitcoin, this year you only had to give 7.7
Ie you have 2.3 more bitcoin. 2.3 / 7.7 = 0.3 = 30%
You will have these interest payments to pay forever..
But
The business makes $3 mil a year in profit. Your interest is $500k. The interest is IRRELEVANT.
Every year you're gaining $2.5 mil in cash and your collateral of bitcoin reduces by 30% each year.
Assuming 30% per year for 10 years(Which it will be, although it'll slow down eventually to 10-15%)
100 * 0.7**10
100% is your original amount
0.7 is what you need to put up each year for the same seed capital.
10 is the number of years
100 * 0.7**10 = 2.82
So in 10 years, you need to put up 2.82% of your initial bitcoin, to get $10 mil, assuming 30% year on year(which it's done since 2011)
If it dropped to 10%, that would be
100 * 0.9**10 = 34.87% in 10 years. Still great.
Even 5% is 100 * 0.95**10 = 59.87%
The only difference is the higher the holding asset grows, the quicker you get it back allowing you to use more of it for loans.
That is what wealthy people do to grow their wealth.
And to be more specific, they don't finance fully 100%. What they do is finance 20-30% and get a bank to give them a cheap loan for the rest, so they use EVEN LESS of their own capital and the only downside is a little less profit each year. The bank loan will be paid back in full, but over a long term up to 25 years. Depends on the business. Bank will accept if the business is in an industry they think will last for a long time, the managementent are capable, the owner is self-financing part of it, and the owner has capital to cover it. All these factors allow the wealthy to get loans at super low interest rates over very long terms.
The bank is happy because it makes more money with a 25 year loan, getting a few % each year, and the buyer is happy because paying off the loan now becomes only a small chunk of the profit. Ie, if you self financed $3 mil with your own bitcoin loan, and took a $7 mil loan at 5% over 25 years that would be $500k-$600k per year in loan repayments each year.
They now used even less of their bitcoin, so they can do 3 deals like that, potentially buying and merging 3 companies in the same industry, and their payments per business would be $500k-$600k for bank loan + $160k for their bitcoin loan interest. Total of about $600k-$700k per year out of $3mil per year profit.
They could even leverage that business by taking out another loan against either the assets in the business or future income, although the more you leverage the higher the risk. The wealthier the person, the less risk they will take. Billionaires don't take much risk. Millionaires take risk. Deca millionaires take some risk. Billionaires are just looking to make a low risk few % per year mostly. Obviously there's exceptions as some people worth $2b-$3b want to keep going big, but that's not the norm. Most of the money in the world at $50m to $5 bil is just looking for low risk returns/maintenance for future generations.
Hope you found that useful
