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"For every 10% Bitcoin goes down, your rate goes up 20 basis points. So even if Bitcoin goes to zero, your rate only increases by 2%. And it works the other way too" CJ Konstantinos, founder of Peoples Reserve, on how the self-repaying mortgage rate moves with Bitcoin "So,... even if Bitcoin went to zero, it's just like a regular mortgage at that point, because you have no Bitcoin working for you anymore. We don't believe Bitcoin goes to zero, but if it did, that would be the consequence" "For every 10% Bitcoin goes up, we reduce your rate by 0.2%, up to a 33% LTV, a 300% collateral ratio. If your loan is $500,000 and you post $1.5 million of Bitcoin, or your original $500,000 grows into $1.5 million, we reduce your rate by 400 basis points. So if you're basic with an 8% starting rate but you over-collateralize, you get a 4% rate" "We believe over time Bitcoin will do what it was engineered to do and accrue value. Intraday volatility doesn't matter, it's a 30-day window. At the end of every month before your payment is due, we take a snapshot. So if Bitcoin flash crashes and bounces back, no change to your rate, it has to be a consistent drawdown over 30 days, and we reamortize the loan based on the collateral ratio at that time"show more

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"When you borrow against Bitcoin on margin, for $500K you've got to put up $1 million and deal with liquidation risk. With us it's only one-to-one" CJ Konstantinos, founder of Peoples Reserve, on how the Bitcoin mortgage eliminates liquidation risk "We have two Bitcoin-powered mortgages. The self-repaying mortgage, our flagship, and the Bitcoin mortgage reserve, created by community demand for an under-collateralized lending product. With the self-repaying mortgage you post one-to-one collateral, so to buy a $500,000 home you post $500,000 of Bitcoin" "How are we able to do that? We dual-collateralize the Bitcoin and the property title. There are two components securing the loan, the property itself and the Bitcoin. That risk reduction, having access to two pools of liquidity, the pristine collateral and the property title, enables us to eliminate margin call and liquidation risk" "Can you lose your Bitcoin? Yes, just like you can lose your house if you don't make your payment. If you don't pay, you have 15 days before default, then a notice of default, then 90 days to cure it, so 105 days to solve your problem. And the problem is literally just making your normal monthly payment. If you lost your job or you're relocating, we even let you pay from the collateral, taking a small chunk to make that monthly payment and avoid default"

"When you borrow against Bitcoin on margin, for $500K you've got to put up $1 million and deal with liquidation risk. With us it's only one-to-one" CJ Konstantinos, founder of Peoples Reserve, on how the Bitcoin mortgage eliminates liquidation risk "We have two Bitcoin-powered mortgages. The self-repaying mortgage, our flagship, and the Bitcoin mortgage reserve, created by community demand for an under-collateralized lending product. With the self-repaying mortgage you post one-to-one collateral, so to buy a $500,000 home you post $500,000 of Bitcoin" "How are we able to do that? We dual-collateralize the Bitcoin and the property title. There are two components securing the loan, the property itself and the Bitcoin. That risk reduction, having access to two pools of liquidity, the pristine collateral and the property title, enables us to eliminate margin call and liquidation risk" "Can you lose your Bitcoin? Yes, just like you can lose your house if you don't make your payment. If you don't pay, you have 15 days before default, then a notice of default, then 90 days to cure it, so 105 days to solve your problem. And the problem is literally just making your normal monthly payment. If you lost your job or you're relocating, we even let you pay from the collateral, taking a small chunk to make that monthly payment and avoid default"

The Wolf Of All Streets

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Michael Michael Saylor lays out Strategy: You buy Bitcoin with a variable rate perpetual preferred stock,” creating “what is in essence a nearly risk free swap.” Are you really overpaying at “8% or 9%” if you’re using that capital to buy an asset that keeps appreciating? “There’s only $30 million of Bitcoin available for sale every day and we’re buying all of it.” “What’s the best way to predict the future? It’s to determine the future." “If we basically buy $100 billion of Bitcoin, it’s probably not going up to 0%." ⚡

Michael Michael Saylor lays out Strategy: You buy Bitcoin with a variable rate perpetual preferred stock,” creating “what is in essence a nearly risk free swap.” Are you really overpaying at “8% or 9%” if you’re using that capital to buy an asset that keeps appreciating? “There’s only $30 million of Bitcoin available for sale every day and we’re buying all of it.” “What’s the best way to predict the future? It’s to determine the future." “If we basically buy $100 billion of Bitcoin, it’s probably not going up to 0%." ⚡

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Simply Bitcoin

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Gareth Jenkinson

34,417 views • 8 months ago

Michael Saylor's Michael Saylor EPIC ADVICE for CEOs: "Stop investing in toxic money. Just raise $100 million and buy Bitcoin." at Abundance360 Summit 2024 with Peter H. Diamandis, MD "The Microstrategy story is: We had $600 million enterprise value with $600 million cash - which is a liability. What do we do? We flip it to be $600 million Bitcoin and a $600 million enterprise." "And Bitcoin has been going up 40% a year... So you flip your balance sheet to be an asset, and today the enterprise value of the company is $30 billion." "The enterprise value is up by a factor of x40. It took 42 months... Not 40 years... I haven't graduated from my senior year of Bitcoin." #MichaelSaylor #Bitcoin $MSTR Strategy

Michael Saylor's Michael Saylor EPIC ADVICE for CEOs: "Stop investing in toxic money. Just raise $100 million and buy Bitcoin." at Abundance360 Summit 2024 with Peter H. Diamandis, MD "The Microstrategy story is: We had $600 million enterprise value with $600 million cash - which is a liability. What do we do? We flip it to be $600 million Bitcoin and a $600 million enterprise." "And Bitcoin has been going up 40% a year... So you flip your balance sheet to be an asset, and today the enterprise value of the company is $30 billion." "The enterprise value is up by a factor of x40. It took 42 months... Not 40 years... I haven't graduated from my senior year of Bitcoin." #MichaelSaylor #Bitcoin $MSTR Strategy

Roger James Hamilton

13,197 views • 2 years ago

What if you could earn Bitcoin for doing your daily Bible readings? Well now you can. Let me introduce to you, "The Orange Bible App." I've been hard at work bringing this vision of mine to life and we are finally LIVE on the Apple App Store. The goal is to encourage people to read the whole bible and introduce Christians to Bitcoin for doing it. As you know since writing my book, "The Bible and Bitcoin" I've been on a mission to orange pill the church, I believe this app is the next tool to do that. Read your Bible, earn Bitcoin. Each day you complete your reading your streak grows and you earn more. Miss a day and your streak goes to 0 and you start with the lowest reward again. Gamified bible reading with Bitcoin. It's that simple! Go download it now on the Apple App Store and get started. *Android is coming soon.

What if you could earn Bitcoin for doing your daily Bible readings? Well now you can. Let me introduce to you, "The Orange Bible App." I've been hard at work bringing this vision of mine to life and we are finally LIVE on the Apple App Store. The goal is to encourage people to read the whole bible and introduce Christians to Bitcoin for doing it. As you know since writing my book, "The Bible and Bitcoin" I've been on a mission to orange pill the church, I believe this app is the next tool to do that. Read your Bible, earn Bitcoin. Each day you complete your reading your streak grows and you earn more. Miss a day and your streak goes to 0 and you start with the lowest reward again. Gamified bible reading with Bitcoin. It's that simple! Go download it now on the Apple App Store and get started. *Android is coming soon.

Pastor Coin

229,242 views • 2 months ago

What does it actually mean when STRC trades below par? Strategy CEO Phong Le breaks it down: "It's a preferred equity, not debt. And it's definitely not a money market, even though some people use it in place of one. It's designed to trade within a tight window of par 99 to 101, but there'll be times when it doesn't" "Stretch is trading at 96 cents on the dollar, so it's down 4% during that period. But when you take the 11.5% dividend paid over the last 10 months, that's up 8%. So if you're a shareholder over that period, you're up 4%. If I told you in October I'm going to design an instrument with Bitcoin as the underlying, Bitcoin goes down 50%, and I give you a 4% TSR, would you believe me?" "The last couple weeks it's gone down because Bitcoin has gone down, but it'll come back up. We have the mechanisms. We could increase the dividend, we could shore up the US dollar reserve. I have a strong belief we'll continue to pay the dividends and it'll trade back at par"

What does it actually mean when STRC trades below par? Strategy CEO Phong Le breaks it down: "It's a preferred equity, not debt. And it's definitely not a money market, even though some people use it in place of one. It's designed to trade within a tight window of par 99 to 101, but there'll be times when it doesn't" "Stretch is trading at 96 cents on the dollar, so it's down 4% during that period. But when you take the 11.5% dividend paid over the last 10 months, that's up 8%. So if you're a shareholder over that period, you're up 4%. If I told you in October I'm going to design an instrument with Bitcoin as the underlying, Bitcoin goes down 50%, and I give you a 4% TSR, would you believe me?" "The last couple weeks it's gone down because Bitcoin has gone down, but it'll come back up. We have the mechanisms. We could increase the dividend, we could shore up the US dollar reserve. I have a strong belief we'll continue to pay the dividends and it'll trade back at par"

The Wolf Of All Streets

39,381 views • 2 months ago

GEORGE BODINE: “The biggest thing you can do to protect yourself and the network is to run a node, use something that allow allows you to be sovereign and take self custody of your Bitcoin.” “Get it off of exchanges.” “The only thing you should strive for is self custody. And if you do that, that is the best defense that we have against the securitization of Bitcoin.”

GEORGE BODINE: “The biggest thing you can do to protect yourself and the network is to run a node, use something that allow allows you to be sovereign and take self custody of your Bitcoin.” “Get it off of exchanges.” “The only thing you should strive for is self custody. And if you do that, that is the best defense that we have against the securitization of Bitcoin.”

Simply Bitcoin

12,906 views • 3 months ago

Babylon Ecosystem Spotlight ✨ "Like the phrase, not your keys, not your crypto. So, if you're going to try to convince people to take their Bitcoin and stake it and get yield on it, the easiest way to do that is going to be if they can do it with native Bitcoin. And that's what Babylon enables." Matt | Spicenet - Co-Founder of Spicenet Matthew explains how Babylon's protocol enables Bitcoin holders to maintain sovereignty over their assets while tapping into staking benefits. Get the whole download from the recent Bitcoin Renaissance 👉

Babylon Ecosystem Spotlight ✨ "Like the phrase, not your keys, not your crypto. So, if you're going to try to convince people to take their Bitcoin and stake it and get yield on it, the easiest way to do that is going to be if they can do it with native Bitcoin. And that's what Babylon enables." Matt | Spicenet - Co-Founder of Spicenet Matthew explains how Babylon's protocol enables Bitcoin holders to maintain sovereignty over their assets while tapping into staking benefits. Get the whole download from the recent Bitcoin Renaissance 👉

Babylon

29,142 views • 1 year ago

Should Strategy proactively sell Bitcoin now to protect shareholders later? Kaleo makes the case for selling, and gets pushback Kaleo: "Issuing MSTR is good here. If they were able to just unload a few billion dollars worth of Bitcoin and say the price didn't move way too much, we are being proactive. If they were able to sell that $1.25 billion of Bitcoin, that's bullish" "You're advocating for destroying shareholder value now to protect shareholder value in the future. Why would we be worried about Strategy being a forced seller if we're not worried about voluntarily selling now? That point I just don't get" Kaleo: "Where else is that 10 to 12 billion dollars coming from? They right now have talked about they are willing to sell the Bitcoin. If they sell some at a higher price, it eases a lot more of the concerns than if we get to 30k and we're in the same situation and they haven't sold any" "I can't get anyone to give me an answer on how much Bitcoin he can sell and why. You have no idea what would happen if he did that. What if he does it and Bitcoin goes to 30 and people are like we're done, he's out? You've destroyed more shareholder value than if Bitcoin just goes to 30, stays there 18 months, and he's forced to sell a couple billion. The most likely scenario is at some point in the next 12 months Bitcoin goes up enough that this isn't a problem"

Should Strategy proactively sell Bitcoin now to protect shareholders later? Kaleo makes the case for selling, and gets pushback Kaleo: "Issuing MSTR is good here. If they were able to just unload a few billion dollars worth of Bitcoin and say the price didn't move way too much, we are being proactive. If they were able to sell that $1.25 billion of Bitcoin, that's bullish" "You're advocating for destroying shareholder value now to protect shareholder value in the future. Why would we be worried about Strategy being a forced seller if we're not worried about voluntarily selling now? That point I just don't get" Kaleo: "Where else is that 10 to 12 billion dollars coming from? They right now have talked about they are willing to sell the Bitcoin. If they sell some at a higher price, it eases a lot more of the concerns than if we get to 30k and we're in the same situation and they haven't sold any" "I can't get anyone to give me an answer on how much Bitcoin he can sell and why. You have no idea what would happen if he did that. What if he does it and Bitcoin goes to 30 and people are like we're done, he's out? You've destroyed more shareholder value than if Bitcoin just goes to 30, stays there 18 months, and he's forced to sell a couple billion. The most likely scenario is at some point in the next 12 months Bitcoin goes up enough that this isn't a problem"

The Wolf Of All Streets

46,399 views • 1 month ago

VanEck CEO Jan van Eck on CNBC: “There’s something else going on within the Bitcoin community that non-crypto people need to know about. And that is: ultimately, VanEck has been around before Bitcoin. We will walk away from Bitcoin if we think the thesis is fundamentally broken. We don’t right now, but you always have to look at the underlying technology and the crypto. What the Bitcoin community has been asking itself is: Is there enough encryption in Bitcoin, because quantum computing is coming? And secondly: Is there enough privacy in Bitcoin? And so a lot of Bitcoin OGs or maxis have been looking at Zcash. Zcash is a token. It’s sort of related to Bitcoin with a lot more privacy. The kind of garbage that we got about Bitcoin four years ago was: ‘It’s used for all bad illicit behavior.’ But now everyone kind of realizes that when you move money around on the Bitcoin blockchain, you can see it. You can see it move from one wallet to another. And a lot of people are looking for more privacy.”

VanEck CEO Jan van Eck on CNBC: “There’s something else going on within the Bitcoin community that non-crypto people need to know about. And that is: ultimately, VanEck has been around before Bitcoin. We will walk away from Bitcoin if we think the thesis is fundamentally broken. We don’t right now, but you always have to look at the underlying technology and the crypto. What the Bitcoin community has been asking itself is: Is there enough encryption in Bitcoin, because quantum computing is coming? And secondly: Is there enough privacy in Bitcoin? And so a lot of Bitcoin OGs or maxis have been looking at Zcash. Zcash is a token. It’s sort of related to Bitcoin with a lot more privacy. The kind of garbage that we got about Bitcoin four years ago was: ‘It’s used for all bad illicit behavior.’ But now everyone kind of realizes that when you move money around on the Bitcoin blockchain, you can see it. You can see it move from one wallet to another. And a lot of people are looking for more privacy.”

Arjun Khemani

569,098 views • 8 months ago

Foster Mom Exposes the Demonic Fraud Inside Foster Care “She goes, ‘Oh honey, I make $28,000 a month on foster care.’ I was like, ‘What?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah, because I have this many kids.’ She goes, ‘Here’s the thing. You want to make sure they fail in school. If they fail in school and you can get them on medication, your rate goes up. Every time they don’t pass a grade, your rate goes up because they’re a more difficult kid. Every time they need medication, your rate goes up.’” Jen Lilley

Foster Mom Exposes the Demonic Fraud Inside Foster Care “She goes, ‘Oh honey, I make $28,000 a month on foster care.’ I was like, ‘What?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah, because I have this many kids.’ She goes, ‘Here’s the thing. You want to make sure they fail in school. If they fail in school and you can get them on medication, your rate goes up. Every time they don’t pass a grade, your rate goes up because they’re a more difficult kid. Every time they need medication, your rate goes up.’” Jen Lilley

Shawn Ryan

2,118,904 views • 1 month ago

Strike's new "no liquidation" Bitcoin loans, explained "This seems to be the new catchphrase, no liquidation. But is that really true? Technically yes, but it's not like you don't have to pay back the loan on time" "You basically get a 10-day grace period before they start liquidating you at the point at which your loan becomes in trouble" "So yes, you will not get automatically liquidated, but it doesn't prevent you from having it liquidated in an orderly manner if you're 10 days over on your payments"

Strike's new "no liquidation" Bitcoin loans, explained "This seems to be the new catchphrase, no liquidation. But is that really true? Technically yes, but it's not like you don't have to pay back the loan on time" "You basically get a 10-day grace period before they start liquidating you at the point at which your loan becomes in trouble" "So yes, you will not get automatically liquidated, but it doesn't prevent you from having it liquidated in an orderly manner if you're 10 days over on your payments"

The Wolf Of All Streets

21,755 views • 1 month ago

"The most realistic scenario of us being a forced seller of Bitcoin is in 2028 when $3.5 billion of prefers come due. And even then, we have other options" Strategy CEO Phong Le on what it would actually take for the company to be a forced seller of Bitcoin "We have about $3.5 billion of converts that come due in 2028 with a high strike price, over $400. If at that point Bitcoin has lost a significant amount of its value and our share price is depressed, we would sell the Bitcoin to satisfy the converts" "That's an edge case, because we could also just refinance those converts. We could equitize it. We're talking 2028, two years out" "I don't see any scenario until then that we become a forced seller of Bitcoin. And even then, we have other opportunities and options"

"The most realistic scenario of us being a forced seller of Bitcoin is in 2028 when $3.5 billion of prefers come due. And even then, we have other options" Strategy CEO Phong Le on what it would actually take for the company to be a forced seller of Bitcoin "We have about $3.5 billion of converts that come due in 2028 with a high strike price, over $400. If at that point Bitcoin has lost a significant amount of its value and our share price is depressed, we would sell the Bitcoin to satisfy the converts" "That's an edge case, because we could also just refinance those converts. We could equitize it. We're talking 2028, two years out" "I don't see any scenario until then that we become a forced seller of Bitcoin. And even then, we have other opportunities and options"

The Wolf Of All Streets

50,719 views • 2 months ago

My jaw dropped listening to this There are people gaming the foster care system making $26,000 per month. If they can get their kids on medications and have them fail classes, they get paid more money (WOW) “That's how bad people are making money out of foster care. So I go to this adoption assistant program — I meet this one woman and she's like, "Oh yeah, what you wanna do is you wanna get a D-rate kid." I was like, "What's a D-rate kid? What does that mean?" And she goes, "Oh honey, I make $28,000 a month off foster care." And I was like, "What?" And she was like, "Yeah, because I have this many kids." And she goes, "Here's the thing. You wanna make sure they fail in school. If they fail in school and you can get them on medication, your rate goes up." Every time they don't pass a grade, your rate goes up because they're a more difficult kid. Every time they need a medication, your rate goes up. I think the intentions of increasing the rate was to incentivize good people to stick with it. What it did is incentivize all the wrong people. People who are in it for the money instead of for the love of a child” I looked into this and found federal audits have been done proving that fosters kids are being over prescribed medications, up to 4x the normal rate and the foster parents get payment increases for it Not only that but with behavioral issues it can bump payments up to over $6,000 per child per month

My jaw dropped listening to this There are people gaming the foster care system making $26,000 per month. If they can get their kids on medications and have them fail classes, they get paid more money (WOW) “That's how bad people are making money out of foster care. So I go to this adoption assistant program — I meet this one woman and she's like, "Oh yeah, what you wanna do is you wanna get a D-rate kid." I was like, "What's a D-rate kid? What does that mean?" And she goes, "Oh honey, I make $28,000 a month off foster care." And I was like, "What?" And she was like, "Yeah, because I have this many kids." And she goes, "Here's the thing. You wanna make sure they fail in school. If they fail in school and you can get them on medication, your rate goes up." Every time they don't pass a grade, your rate goes up because they're a more difficult kid. Every time they need a medication, your rate goes up. I think the intentions of increasing the rate was to incentivize good people to stick with it. What it did is incentivize all the wrong people. People who are in it for the money instead of for the love of a child” I looked into this and found federal audits have been done proving that fosters kids are being over prescribed medications, up to 4x the normal rate and the foster parents get payment increases for it Not only that but with behavioral issues it can bump payments up to over $6,000 per child per month

Wall Street Apes

81,794 views • 1 month ago

Bryan Johnson’s Best Health Hack Will Help You Sleep Better and Live Longer “The single best thing I've learned out of everything I've ever done is (lowering) your resting heart rate before sleep is the best thing you can do for your health. Hands down.” “Let's say it's 60 beats per minute. Your goal over the next month is to lower your heart rate by 10% or so. So if you're 60, be down at 54.” “Here's how you're going to do it.” 1) No food for 4 hours before bed 2) No screens for 1 hour before bed 3) Amber and red lights in your house, no blues 4) No caffeine after 12pm “The reason why your heart rate is so important is the lower your heart rate is, the better your sleep, the better your sleep, the better your willpower.” “Did you know, if you don't sleep your prefrontal cortex goes offline and you lose your willpower?” “So when you're trying to not eat the cookie, you're powerless. You can't do it. It's gone.” “I promise you, this is the single best thing you can do for your health.” Bryan Johnson

Bryan Johnson’s Best Health Hack Will Help You Sleep Better and Live Longer “The single best thing I've learned out of everything I've ever done is (lowering) your resting heart rate before sleep is the best thing you can do for your health. Hands down.” “Let's say it's 60 beats per minute. Your goal over the next month is to lower your heart rate by 10% or so. So if you're 60, be down at 54.” “Here's how you're going to do it.” 1) No food for 4 hours before bed 2) No screens for 1 hour before bed 3) Amber and red lights in your house, no blues 4) No caffeine after 12pm “The reason why your heart rate is so important is the lower your heart rate is, the better your sleep, the better your sleep, the better your willpower.” “Did you know, if you don't sleep your prefrontal cortex goes offline and you lose your willpower?” “So when you're trying to not eat the cookie, you're powerless. You can't do it. It's gone.” “I promise you, this is the single best thing you can do for your health.” Bryan Johnson

The All-In Podcast

315,382 views • 10 months ago

Gold vs. Bitcoin: Navigating The Risk Divergence 📈 A reminder that you don't need to wear a drawdown in Bitcoin (or any asset for that matter) just because someone with "laser eyes" says to buy and hold at all times. At Hedgeye we manage risk, and if you did that properly, you would have handled the 1700 basis points divergence between gold $GLD and Bitcoin $BTC in February. That difference was fueled by a #Quad4 environment - but one that could soon be reversing. "Bitcoin is trying to make up its mind. It's got 3 or 4 days left of that. So what do you do? You wait and you watch," Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough explains in this clip from "The Macro Show." "Everything is a number. The question is, do you see it?" * * * * * You can download Keith's new, 52-page eBook "Master The Market: A Hedge Fund Manager's Guide to Process and Profit" for FREE here:

Gold vs. Bitcoin: Navigating The Risk Divergence 📈 A reminder that you don't need to wear a drawdown in Bitcoin (or any asset for that matter) just because someone with "laser eyes" says to buy and hold at all times. At Hedgeye we manage risk, and if you did that properly, you would have handled the 1700 basis points divergence between gold $GLD and Bitcoin $BTC in February. That difference was fueled by a #Quad4 environment - but one that could soon be reversing. "Bitcoin is trying to make up its mind. It's got 3 or 4 days left of that. So what do you do? You wait and you watch," Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough explains in this clip from "The Macro Show." "Everything is a number. The question is, do you see it?" * * * * * You can download Keith's new, 52-page eBook "Master The Market: A Hedge Fund Manager's Guide to Process and Profit" for FREE here:

Hedgeye

107,532 views • 1 year ago