Ok 1) You dont know what you’re saying. I wasnt born yesterday. I know there are other ways to prepare, and thats why Im diversified. But yes, after reading multiple books about bitcoin and taking a college level course on it, Im convinced its the BEST way to hedge against inflation. Along with gold. Real estate to a degree, yes, until the crisis spills over into that market. Which will also happen eventually. Personally I think its not smart at all for anyone not to have any bitcoin exposure at this point. But okay. Do you.
2) I dunno when the real doom will start, but I think its obviously incoming at some point. Eventually it will be time to pay the piper somehow. A great great depression? WW3? Who knows. Not even the greatest economic scholars know how this will play out.
3)Im aware there are other ways. Im probably 35% real estate. Maybe more. Im probably, I dunno, 30ish% stocks/funds.
Again, my advice to any physician is to acquire just 1 bitcoin and call it a day. But you better get moving because theres not much left, and it wont be affordable for much longer.
Time will tell
Doom has been obviously incoming for a couple decades now. Has the financial irresponsibility accelerated? Sure. My suspicion is that we'll endure grinding inflation in fits and spurts, with periods of tranquility, and periods of panic (market crashes, recessions) over the next few decades. The USA, with its massive supply of natural resources, ability to feed itself, industry, universities, nuclear weapons, and a bloated military that will remain bloated even if huge cuts hit ... will be in a far more enviable position than Europe, China, India, the Pacific Rim, Africa, South America, anywhere.
After all ... who's winning the trade now? The country trading soon-to-be-worthless dollars for finite resources mined elsewhere, or the countries trading their resources and polluting their land and sweatshop'ing their people in return for those soon-to-be-worthless dollars? It's the biggest scam in history!
If things get bad enough that only the bitcoin early adopters survive above the poverty line, there won't be anything worth buying with those bitcoins. Flee to another more stable country with your bitcoin? Good luck. Good ... luck.
1 bitcoin and call it a day? So if BTC hits $500K in a rosy scenario where bitcoin actually exceeds the market cap of gold, and you turn $100K of 2025 purchasing power into $500K of 2025 purchasing power at some point in the future,
that's going to be the difference between a happy prosperous life and misery?
You guys wildly overstate the importance and essential nature of having some bitcoin. It's
just one asset, among many. It has its own risks. The future appears heading in a poor direction, but the nature of the problems and especially their timing are uncertain and hard to predict.
I don't think owning bitcoin is going to
hurt you. I hope you make some money off it.