Last Notes
After 72 issues, I went back through FIRE BTC to see which ideas readers kept returning to.
The favorites ranged from a 4-year stacking sprint and the 4% rule to W-2 strategy, STRC leverage, and 9 levels of financial independence.
FIRE plans can fail in different places. You can have a strong savings rate and a fuzzy target, a large bitcoin position and weak emergency liquidity, or enough assets to leave your job while still treating the paycheck as your identity.
These eight articles attack those problems from different angles. One challenges Mr. Money Mustache's case against bitcoin. Another asks whether a 4-year stacking sprint can compress the FIRE timeline. The 4% rule piece tests stock-and-bond withdrawal assumptions, while the W-2 piece treats your job as funding for your personal balance sheet.
The rest covers my STRC carry trade and its stress test, the 9 levels of financial independence, emergency planning that protects you from selling bitcoin at the wrong time, and the opportunity cost of paying off a low-rate mortgage early.
You probably don't need all eight ideas today. Which part of your plan needs work next: the target, the timeline, the job, liquidity, debt, or withdrawals?
Use this collection to find the right place to start: https://www.firebtc.io/p/the-best-of-fire-btc
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good morning and pura vida, nostr. if you're building here, you're building for the future. 🫂🤙🏻💜
852 EH/s. FnG 25. Märkte reden über Kurse, Miner reden in Kilowattstunden. Panik auf dem Chart — Stabilität im Grid. Diese zwei Sprachen beschreiben dasselbe Netzwerk.
Literally @npub1c6d…zmx3 🤣
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Sí, essenzialmente sí. 😁
Collettivamente parlando.
Individualmente spero di no.
Ci sono tante brave persone anche in questo continente. Solo che non contano un cazzo.
#tattoo #lego #art https://blossom.primal.net/66ebb14ec2d0306f0747d6772f92ffed2f2616918bd0be7c02954e7f4eb4aacd.jpg
Hon why you coming in here hating, be nice 😂
Happy to have you back on stage
If you read about some of the stars we know of, many are so bizarre and wild that it’s hard to imagine them. Then you look at our own solar system and realize you barely know anything about it. Diamond rain on Neptune? Huh?
The bizarreness of some of these things seems to indicate at least to me that the universe might be procedural.
My insurer offers a discount if I wear their tracker. Privacy now has a list price, printed right on the bill.
#privacy #cypherpunk
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💯 Seriously man, I'm so tired of this totalitarian shit
#bitcoin #btc
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Exe[dot]dev, switched over recently from hetzner because hetzner kept increasing their prices like every 6 months... regret doing that now
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The RDS is tuned to receive messages from other realms.....
Anything can be a portal if you understand entanglement
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/19/archives/harassment-alleged-over-code-research-computer-scientists-say-us.html
Different styles I guess! I liked them both.
Philosophy is cool and all, but if the hashrate falls to very low values in the future, we're going to have to be pragmatic about the security budget
I love the idea of Ark as a 'Channel Factory', allowing billions to have fully sovereign Lightning nodes. However, if Ark is *too* efficient in this case, then a typical block might have only one transaction!
(By the way, that's partly why I'm currently against CTV; I want Ark, but I don't want it to be *too* scalable; I want many medium-sized Arks, not one mega-Ark)
On balance, I think it'll all be fine and there won't be a problem with the security budget. But there could be a problem, and that problem could eventually be fatal. So I like to think about it
The article discusses Runes, but I think it dismisses them too quickly. The Lightning network could be extended to fully support Runes (no soft fork required), and it's possible (but admittedly, very unlikely) that one of the Runes becomes very valuable. As many Runes 'currencies' have tail emissions, it's possible that they could provide the right incentives to miners
Anyway, there's always 'demurrage', a soft fork to apply a tax on old UTXOs, which would motivate people to move their coins more often and create. The rule could be that, when spending a UTXO older than X years, at least Y% of the outputs must be anyone-can-spend outputs that are locked to a few years in the future. Such outputs are equivalent to the block subsidy in practice
Sensible or crazy punts? I'm still waiting to see testing report from reconnaissance energy for now but interesting high risk is noble helium
There are so many problems with it I’m not sure I want to go down that road 😂
是啊 游客进不来不能挣钱 只能靠我们这些只为开心和娱乐的理想主义者撑着了 等以后能挣钱了 就没这么纯粹了
Exactly. Inception was lame. Tennet even worse 😂
And I didn't even tell the whole story. 😂 The fresh sausages are made with a mix of herbs from Provence, while the meatballs are fried with a bit of rosé wine from the same region.
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"In the beginning there were shells
And beads and stones of worth
Commodities with scarcity
Across the whole earth"
- EasyWiz, "The history and downfall of money" from 21 Lessons
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PV and GM plebs! #plebchain #coffeechain
هنا يجتمع اكثر ناس اقوياء في دنيا
📰 **In this week's issue:**
🗞️ **BREAKING**
Why The Protocol You Ignored Is Quietly Eating Web3's Lunch
You think decentralized social is dead? While you were distracted by AI agents and memecoins, the most anti-fragile protocol in crypto just secured funding for encrypted video calls, AI marketplaces, and an app store that bypasses Big Tech entirely. But here’s what the grants announcement doesn’t tell you—and why developers are suddenly rushing back to Nostr.
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✍️ Author: NM team
🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w29nostr01
📈 id#111368350
And the sky…is a hazy shade of summer.
It's truly amazing how many people will show up on social media to tell you taking a moment to focus your own mental health and personal growth is a bad idea, not worth it, and they couldn't be bothered.
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gm. visa controls your money. bitcoin gives you the control. https://bitcoin.rocks/bitcoin-vs-visa
I wish it got more frequent updates.
GM ☀️ PV 🖖
I can’t even begin to describe how much I needed this today.
Get yourself some from @npub1cxt…d5cj. He’s like Nostr’s very own Juan Valdez. 🫏⛰️☕️
#coffeechain
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America right now 🤦♂️
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Yeah I'm trying out wavlake now. Seems to work well so far
Pasta with meatballs from the sausage meat and Parmesan sauce, topped with even more Parmesan.
#foodstr
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