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The American household saves 2.8% of what it takes home.
One bitcoin costs about $78,000.
Do that division. Thirty-four years of setting aside everything you set aside, for one coin, assuming the price never moves again.
And that is before tax, so the real number is worse.
Americans saved just 3.8% of disposable income in September.
Someone taking home $5,000 monthly would save $190 at that rate.
At today’s Bitcoin price, accumulating one BTC would take approximately 33.6 years, assuming the price never changes.
The US collected $5.4 trillion in federal revenue last fiscal year and spent $7.4 trillion.
For every $100 collected, Washington spent approximately $137.
They'll never stop printing. Fiat is THEFT.
The US paid approximately $1.05 trillion in net interest on its debt during fiscal 2026.
That's $2.88 billion every day, or roughly $33,400 every second, just servicing existing obligations. 🤯
Great video!
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I took a closer look at @bricktopians, and there is more to explore beyond the original collection.
Here is a breakdown of the ecosystem, from The Forge to creator opportunities and physical products.
A thread 🧵
A $400K mortgage at 7.32% generates approximately $589k in interest over 30 years, assuming scheduled payments.
You borrow $400k and repay nearly $989 k.
The cost of borrowing exceeds the amount originally borrowed.
At a 5.1% interest rate, refinancing $1 trillion in government debt costs approximately $51B annually in interest.
That's $21B more than refinancing the same amount at 3%.
The cost of debt matters enormously when a government already carries $40 trillion in obligations.
Bitcoin transaction fees depend primarily on transaction size in virtual bytes, not the dollar value being transferred.
Moving $10M in one simple transaction can cost less than moving $100 using dozens of UTXOs.
If your salary increases 5% while Bitcoin appreciates 20%, your income buys 12.5% fewer sats after one year.
Your paycheck increased, but your labor's purchasing power against Bitcoin declined.
I created the Satoshi Annual Labor Index (SALI) for you to calculate this. Try it 100% free: sali.angarlo.com
September CPI arrives tomorrow.
A stronger inflation reading could keep real borrowing costs elevated, while a weaker reading might ease pressure on Treasury yields.
Bitcoin trades in a financial system where the price of capital matters, even though its own monetary policy doesn't change.
There's an important difference between borrowing against Bitcoin and borrowing to purchase Bitcoin.
In the first case, you already own the asset and use it as collateral.
In the second, you're financing an asset you don't yet own outright.
The difficulty adjustment is one of Bitcoin's most underrated inventions.
Without it, adding more mining power would accelerate Bitcoin issuance.
Instead, more hashpower eventually just makes the same bitcoin harder to produce.
More demand for oil eventually gets more wells drilled. More demand for gold makes marginal mines economical. A company with expensive shares can issue more of them.
Bitcoin doesn’t give a shit about demand.