A lot of people don't understand this. For most, wealth is not a barrier, it is a gradient. The attitude that comes with 'cashing out' is the opposite attitude needed for growing a large net worth. Almost all of the high wealth individuals I deal with have the exact same obsessive need to keep growing their numbers, and will work until they die. If they didn't, they wouldn't be worth that much.

That said, I do still wonder if there is much more impactful methods to protect and grow your bitcoin net worth that isn't a bet. You are in a unique position to be able to impact bitcoins value. Perhaps, if this goes through, consider re-investing back into bitcoin developer funding programs? Maybe some bitcoin based startups? Even some kind of global marketing endeavor to help improve the worlds perception of bitcoin? All of these could potentially help grow the rest of your stash by a large amount. Bitcoin needs a lot of help, and it should bother everyone that bitcoin isn't surpassing Snapchats market cap.

Agreed, exactly what I was saying earlier as well. I'm not one one side or the other, but the amount of money being trivialized here as a bet is enough to advance the bitcoin experience and improve the total value of bitcoin as a whole. This bet is irresponsible.

Of course it's their money they can do whatever they want (and I absolutely appreciate the spectacle of it), but I wish this community was more about investing to grow itself rather than wiener-swinging bets for protocol preference. Forgetting the value relative to other peoples savings... the amount they are talking about is enough to make a significant dent in bitcoins global value, whether through investment in startups, funding for developers, or whatever else.

While this is pretty amazing and popcorn worthy for the community, and you are uniquely positioned to make such a bet... Wouldn't it be more prudent to invest some of those risked coins to improve the bitcoin ecosystem? 40k coins buys a lot of developer time! It's enough to start and fund several bitcoin startups.

If you aren't confident in the Unlimited devs, you could even make a small fund to help pay better developers to make BU's code more confidence inspiring (which could reduce peoples fears and the risks of the fork, reducing price fluctuations), or conversely invest it in the Core team if you'd prefer they be our stewardesses. Or create a new Bitcoin startup. Or some other thing (marketing, tools, API's, etc) to grow bitcoin adoption. Either way there's gotta be a million better ways to risk these coins that could be productive for everyone... Improving the overall health of bitcoin makes your substantial stash of coins worth more too.