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8 ChartBuddy posts in a row?

I am seeing quite a few top calls on X. Surely $124,000 wasn’t the top of this cycle? I will be pretty annoyed if it was.
Bitcoin is always good for surprises. Could well be that we get a fake top this year with everybody being disappointed about a weak cycle top and the real runup 26 0r 27 or so when nobody expects it. That would be of course the end of the continuation of the usual cycles.

It just does not seem logical to have a top for this cycle that is anywhere less than $180k or so.., except maybe if we end up discovering some really outrageously large fractional reserve systems that would then sour sentiment on the industry for another couple of years.. .. or some other scandalous unraveling.  

In other words, even though there is a lot of desires for BIGGER players to wreck the non-status quo rich HODLers, it still seems like more pain would be done by deploying another pump or stairstep move to the UPpity that takes away "early status" to another group of fence-sitters that had refused to get themselves involved in bitcoin and to build their bitcoin stake earlier rather than later.

And of this ongoing fence-sitting does not even need to be at a conscious level, since down the road it is quite likely going to cost most if not all of the no coiners and the low coiners a lot more to get themselves into bitcoin rather than what is happening with their current status of either ignoring bitcoin or remaining ignorant of the greatness of the corn (which likely either means looking into bitcoin more or at least taking some kind of a stake, even a whimpy stake just to have some skin in the game, since ongoingly, it is likely going to continue to be way better to have the status of a low coiner than a no coiner).

What's up fam, it's been a while.

I've treated myself (that's the WO-sign we used a few years back, right?).

Well done.

Yes, that’s the infamous WO hand sign.

I am not sure where the line should be officially drawn in terms of luxurious consumption.. 10% to 20%?  The example of 5% (spending $250k with a NW of $5 million) seems more than reasonable., yet to really figure out the situation, we probably would need to know more about the various other frivolous (consumption-oriented) stuff the guy is buying?

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So let's say the question in Naiive's above tweet example were to be a person who had an overwhelming majority of his quasi-liquid and countable wealth in bitcoinwith this framework, and let's saywe might conjecture that Naiive et al may have had been getting excited by getting to a status in which BTC's spot price was starting to show $5 million in value.

So maybe
perhaps he has somewhere in the ballpark of 42.612 BTC that would also currently have a 200-WMA value of $2.193 million.  This guy need not get overly excited about selling a bunch of his BTC, but instead he can figure out his budget by calculating a sustainable withdrawal rate from his current stash and based on the 200-WMA valuation, which I would consider to be $219.3k annually or $18,272 monthly (based on a 10% annual withdrawal rate based on the 200-WMA).

HeThe guy could choose to withdraw a whole year from his BTC holdings in advance, yet I would be careful in regards to withdrawing too much at once, so maybe withdrawing $200k rather than the full amount.. or if he chooses to withdraw $300k, then maybe he might need to count it asthat kind of a withdrawwithdrawal as one that coverswould cover 18 months of his withdrawals into the future.

In any event there are various ways tosuch a guy could extract value from such a decently large quantity of currently 42.612 bitcoin without overdoing it and while also maintaining some appreciation in making attempts to have his withdrawal levels to be sustainable, and sure he can calculate if he wants to on average to deplete his BTC holdings, which would mean withdrawing at a greater than 10% rate or if he would rather have some confidence that his BTC holdings are continuingwere going to continue to grow faster than his withdrawal rate by choosing, then he would choose a less than 10% per year withdrawal rate based on the 200-WMA valuation of his holdings.
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8 ChartBuddy posts in a row?

I am seeing quite a few top calls on X. Surely $124,000 wasn’t the top of this cycle? I will be pretty annoyed if it was.
Bitcoin is always good for surprises. Could well be that we get a fake top this year with everybody being disappointed about a weak cycle top and the real runup 26 0r 27 or so when nobody expects it. That would be of course the end of the continuation of the usual cycles.

It just does not seem logical to have a top for this cycle that is anywhere less than $180k or so.., except maybe if we end up discovering some really outrageously large fractional reserve systems that would then sour sentiment on the industry for another couple of years.. .. or some other scandalous unraveling.  

In other words, even though there is a lot of desires for BIGGER players to wreck the non-status quo rich HODLers, it still seems like more pain would be done by deploying another pump or stairstep move to the UPpity that takes away "early status" to another group of fence-sitters that had refused to get themselves involved in bitcoin and to build their bitcoin stake earlier rather than later.

And of this ongoing fence-sitting does not even need to be at a conscious level, since down the road it is quite likely going to cost most if not all of the no coiners and the low coiners a lot more to get themselves into bitcoin rather than what is happening with their current status of either ignoring bitcoin or remaining ignorant of the greatness of the corn (which likely either means looking into bitcoin more or at least taking some kind of a stake, even a whimpy stake just to have some skin in the game, since ongoingly, it is likely going to continue to be way better to have the status of a low coiner than a no coiner).

What's up fam, it's been a while.

I've treated myself (that's the WO-sign we used a few years back, right?).

Well done.

Yes, that’s the infamous WO hand sign.

I am not sure where the line should be officially drawn in terms of luxurious consumption.. 10% to 20%?  The example of 5% (spending $250k with a NW of $5 million) seems more than reasonable.

We probably need to know more about the various other frivolous stuff the guy is buying?

I have already asserted my own view that a guy's spending of 10% of the 200-WMA valuation of a guy's holdings per year is perpetually sustainable... so long as he takes a few precautions to reduce such spending during periods that the BTC spot price is less than 25% above the 200-WMA.

Surely many of us get caught up upon the spot price valuations of our BTC holdings, yet since we know that BTC prices fluctuate so much, we may frequently find ourselves becoming overexuberant in our calculations of our own wealth and/or our own possibilities.

Alternatively, we might make some alternative calculation of the value that might be subjected to a reduction of the spot price peaks, which surely is in the spirit of the right direction that comes from going with the 200-WMA, even though it is a bit of a delayed indicator.. yet even it's delayed indicator status can be used to our advantage in order to make sure that we do not overly exuberantly withdraw from our bitcoin at a rate that is greater than its expected ability to hold its value.

So let's say the question in Naiive's above tweet example were to be a person who had an overwhelming majority of his quasi-liquid and countable wealth in bitcoin, and let's say that Naiive et al may have had been getting excited by getting to a status in which BTC's spot price was starting to show $5 million in value.

So maybe he has somewhere in the ballpark of 42.612 BTC that would also have a 200-WMA value of $2.193 million.  This guy need not get overly excited about selling a bunch of his BTC, but instead he can figure out his budget by calculating a sustainable withdrawal rate, which I would consider to be $219.3k annually or $18,272 monthly.

He could choose to withdraw a whole year in advance, I would be careful in regards to withdrawing too much at once, so maybe withdrawing $200k rather than the full amount.. or if he chooses to withdraw $300k, then maybe he might need to count it as a withdraw that covers 18 months into the future. In any event there are various ways to extract value from such a decently large quantity of bitcoin without overdoing it and while also maintaining some appreciation in making attempts to have his withdrawal levels to be sustainable, and sure he can calculate if he wants to on average deplete his BTC holdings, which would mean withdrawing at a greater than 10% rate or if he would rather have some confidence that his BTC holdings are continuing to grow faster than his withdrawal rate by choosing a less than 10% per year withdrawal rate based on the 200-WMA valuation.
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What's up fam, it's been a while.

I've treated myself (that's the WO-sign we used a few years back, right?).

Well done.

Yes, that’s the infamous WO hand sign.

I am not sure where the line should be officially drawn in terms of luxurious consumption.. 10% to 20%?  The example of 5% (spending $250k with a NW of $5 million) seems more than reasonable.

We probably need to know more about the various other frivolous stuff the guy is buying?

I have already asserted my own view that a guy's spending of 10% of the 200-WMA valuation of a guy's holdings per year is perpetually sustainable... so long as he takes a few precautions to reduce such spending during periods that the BTC spot price is less than 25% above the 200-WMA.

Surely many of us get caught up upon the spot price valuations of our BTC holdings, yet since we know that BTC prices fluctuate so much, we may frequently find ourselves becoming overexuberant in our calculations of our own wealth and/or our own possibilities.

Alternatively, we might make some alternative calculation of the value that might be subjected to a reduction of the spot price peaks, which surely is in the spirit of the right direction that comes from going with the 200-WMA, even though it is a bit of a delayed indicator.. yet even it's delayed indicator status can be used to our advantage in order to make sure that we do not overly exuberantly withdraw from our bitcoin at a rate that is greater than its expected ability to hold its value.

So let's say the question in Naiive's above tweet example were to be a person who had an overwhelming majority of his quasi-liquid and countable wealth in bitcoin, and let's say that Naiive et al may have had been getting excited by getting to a status in which BTC's spot price was starting to show $5 million in value.

So maybe he has somewhere in the ballpark of 42.612 BTC that would also have a 200-WMA value of $2.193 million.  This guy need not get overly excited about selling a bunch of his BTC, but instead he can figure out his budget by calculating a sustainable withdrawal rate, which I would consider to be $219.3k annually or $18,272 monthly.

He could choose to withdraw a whole year in advance, I would be careful in regards to withdrawing too much at once, so maybe withdrawing $200k rather than the full amount.. or if he chooses to withdraw $300k, then maybe he might need to count it as a withdraw that covers 18 months into the future. In any event there are various ways to extract value from such a decently large quantity of bitcoin without overdoing it and while also maintaining some appreciation in making attempts to have his withdrawal levels to be sustainable, and sure he can calculate if he wants to on average deplete his BTC holdings, which would mean withdrawing at a greater than 10% rate or if he would rather have some confidence that his BTC holdings are continuing to grow faster than his withdrawal rate by choosing a less than 10% per year withdrawal rate based on the 200-WMA valuation.