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tl/dr; Over the past 16 months I took out 3 personal loans totaling $59,000 and bought a total of 2.65 BTC for an average price of ~24,000 per BTC... I managed to pay off the first loan ($15K) completely, and $3,500 on the second loan. I currently owe $41,000. My monthly payments are ~$700 a month. I'm not stressing and my conviction remains strong. I can easily afford to service the debt. I’m currently up ~25% on my position, which comes to ~$19,500 profit.
Greetings everyone!
As promised, I'm back with my one year update to my previous posts of taking out $35,000 in personal loans to buy and hold Bitcoin.
You can read about my first two loans totally $35,000 if you check my post history from Feb and June of 2022. I don't want to cross-post from other subs. I got a lot of hate on those previous posts, but I think it was really just salty buttoners hoping Bitcoin would fail. Instead, I'm up ~25%!
Anyway, a quick review...
1st loan: February 2022; $15,000 interest rate of 6% fixed APR. I bought 0.45 BTC ($225 monthly payment)
2nd loan: June 2022; $20,000 interest rate of 4.9% fixed APR. I bought 1.25BTC ($326 monthly payment)
3rd loan: June 2023; $24,000 interest rate of 8% fixed APR. I bought 0.95 BTC. (~$405 monthly payment)
Total Loans: $59,000.
Total BTC Bought: 2.65 BTC
Average Price per BTC: $22,264 (not including interest paid on loan)
Average Price per BTC: ~24,000 (including interest paid so far)
It’s been a pretty good year all things considered. I was very aggressive with servicing my loans. I felt torn between buying more Bitcoin and aggressively paying off my loans, but ultimately decided to pay down my first loan… in fact, I managed to completely pay off my first loan of $15,000! It took me a total of 16 months to do so.
That left me with my remaining $20,000 loan of which I managed to make a small dent on. I’ve paid $3,500 of it so far.
In my previous posts, a lot of redditors on other subs, not r/bitcoin, had a really difficult time understanding my strategy so I’ll explain it gain in baby-talk: take out low APR loans, acquire as much Bitcoin as possible, hold said Bitcoin long term, and repay the loans with inflated dollars over time.
The way I see it, the US dollar is rapidly declining in value and prestige. Therefore, I will take out loans to buy Bitcoin and pay back said loans with inflated dollars that I earn from my job.
Now on to the new loan… with the halving less than a year away, I feel pressure to acquire as much Bitcoin as possible. So I decided to take out another loan of $24,000 with a fixed 8% APR.
I know, I know... that’s a high APR and I said I wouldn’t go that high in my last post! But since I paid off my first loan so quickly, I thought, why the hell not?
I’ll focus on paying this most recent loan down first since it has such a higher APR than the previous one, and with any luck should have it paid off within 18 months or so. We'll see...
I don’t expect Bitcoin to be trading in this range18 months from now. I expect BTC to be ~$100k per coin by then, so I’ll bite the bullet of a short term high APR for the the long term exponential price appreciation of Bitcoin. In the meantime, I'll continue paying down my loans... or maybe not. I'm tempted to throw everything I have at Bitcoin while it's still under $30k. We'll see...
***** EDIT*********
For those curious about my personal financial situation. Here it is...
Independent contractor. ~$60k annual income. I live in NYC, but have a rent stabilized apartment so my rent is very affordable. No wife. No kids. I'm frugal. I save and invest ~25-30% of income (~$1,500) into Bitcoin each month. Still have plenty left over to enjoy life.
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A lot of us invested in Algorand. I also bought some a few years ago. Back in those days, all of us were very bullish and positive. Algorand was all over Reddit and other social media websites and news websites. Algorand got some strong partners over the years.
https://i.redd.it/2j2wixee8jbb1.pngFast forward to 2023, and Algorand is a little under $0.11. Yet it used to trade at $3.15 in 2019 and $2.30 in 2021. Relative to Bitcoin, Algorand is even down 99% since 2019.
Actually, from the start of 2023:
Cryptocurrency | Price 1 January 2023 | Price 12 July 2023 | % difference |
---|---|---|---|
Bitcoin | $16625 | $30742 | +85% |
Ethereum | $1201 | $1886 | +57% |
Algorand | $0,1775 | $0.1062 | -40% |
So while Bitcoin is up 85% and Ethereum up 57%, Algorand is down 40%. This means that $1000 invested in these three cryptocurrencies would give you $1850 (Bitcoin), $1570 (Ethereum), or $600 (Algorand). That is an INSANE difference.
For perspective, XRP is 40% up, Litecoin 36% up, Polkadot 18% up, ADA 16% up, and Solana 120% up. Almost every other alt is outperforming Algorand since the start of the year.
What happened? Where did this go wrong? Cant believe how bad Algorand is performing.
After ten years of being obsessed with the Bitcoin white-paper (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf), converting the fruits of my labor into satoshis, six years of self custody best practices and running a full bitcoin node, I’ve learned that the control over my time increases while my connection (i.e., addiction) to the legacy financial system decreases. The control and impact that Central Planners have over my life continues to drop dramatically as my adoption and understanding of bitcoin increases.
I look back at all I’ve learned and how I got to the level of bitcoin adoption that I’m at and I weep (figuratively) for those coming behind me. This is because it’s a long road, a road filled with naysayers, witch hunters, ideological fanatics, the well-meaning but cognitively dissonant, and greed. But, that road is being paved over by many that have come before and after, and you ought not need to fall prey to the unnecessary pitfalls of becoming personally responsible for your time, energy and dare I say, freedom.
Bitcoin, in the hands of the self-sovereign minded, brings a lot of hope, but it also reveals the incentives of those around you and of your own. It is my opinion Bitcoin is a fascinating technological tool that allows the individual to more accurately see the financialized world as it is, a world that is constantly filled with misrepresentation and obfuscation. I'm here to help you and anyone reading this grapple with the Bitcoin White-paper and its implications on the shared reality we find ourselves in. I do not claim to be some sort of Oracle of Bitcoin. I am infallible and subject to my ego as anyone else. I'm here because I did the work and have things worth saying. I am confident, through rigorous testing and effort, many... many hours spent in the libraries of human knowledge, personal and professional experience in the modern world, using every tool at my disposal that I labored to become adept at in order to grok Bitcoin and its implication on the financialized word. That is to say, I posses a fundamental comprehension of Bitcoin. My hope is to assist others so that we may take full advantage of the moment we all find ourselves in, a moment of self-sovereignty, a moment of hope.
If I were to give just one piece of advice it would be to dollar cost average the fruits of your labor into satoshis (i.e., DCA) with patience and humility. Never sell a single Satoshi (outside of necessity) until you're denominating your stored time and energy in satoshis. Aim to run your own bitcoin node. Be cautious who you talk to in your physical/digital life about bitcoin until you understand and implement self custody best practices - this for your own well-being as much as it is for other’s. Last, but not least, trust NO ONE but yourself because with bitcoin you don’t have to. This is bitcoin's pathway to having near-total ownership of your most precious resource, time.
I will monitor this thread and answer questions from anyone who wants to obtain my experience, and will address what is related to anything that I’ve spent a great deal of time exploring, leaving the rest to others. I do so freely, without expectation of reciprocation outside of spreading knowledge and useful information. I do so because Bitcoin has allowed me to store my time, I've benefited off the work of many others that came before me, and giving back to others is a worthwhile endeavor. Lastly, I encourage anyone to challenge what I say and point out any mistakes.
My hand is extended for your taking…
[edited for clarity]