Why This Is the Greatest Time to Invest: Bitcoin, MicroStrategy & Crypto Growth

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3:22when we talk about it being the greatest time to invest in the greatest time to own assets this is not theoretical this is actual factual right we watched an asset in 2021 be twenty thousand dollars and currently sit at a hundred and twenty two thousand dollars i mean even before that you know but just the time of the since we had the show the first time that i personally put money into Bitcoin. It was$5 ,000. That was November of 17. It was$5 ,000. The first time I saw it, it was$300. Back in the day, Bitcoin going to 500 was like a big event. But there's a story I'm going to tell from this. So the first time I put money into Bitcoin was $5 ,000, right?

4:10And at that time, people were saying$5 ,000 was ridiculous, but something that's not even real. And then it gets to$10 ,000. Then it got to$20 ,000. Then it's like, yo, this is the tulip scam of 1909. This is the dumbest thing ever. So it's all perspective. At$5 ,000, people couldn't understand it. Also at$5 ,000, people were saying that you were too late. that's what a lot of people, even with me, it was like, well, you're late. Because this has been around for years and people got in at 500, like you paying$5 ,000 for something. Why would you do that? So it's all relative. It's important to keep that in perspective.

5:00There's going to always be arguments about it being too much and that you're too late. Even when I was like, okay, this is going to be my investment choice. People are like, okay, well, it's already$90 ,000,$85 ,000. What's the upside? You can get 33 % rate of return in six months, and it's still going to go up. 13 % else. Yeah. Exactly. The same reasons we just said that NVIDIA has a four to five year run. We can say four to five years. There's no time limit on Bitcoin. Right? You got to figure that appreciation, the last Bitcoin is going to be mined in, was it 2042? We're in 2025. That's 17 years away.

5:44And I'll say this, this run would not have happened without the institution and the centralization. 100%. And please don't come for me. I've been investing since 2009. I've seen a lot. It does not make me the foremost expert on anything. I have created freedom for myself before I got to talking online. without BlackRock and Vanguard, this run wouldn't have happened. Which is why you don't see that drastic fall off that we've seen in the past. That we used to have. Yeah. Or your Bitcoin don't get taken like Mindy to Mt. Gox when you were selling Melaleuca coffee. Some of y 'all need to stop talking and put up some results like Detroit did.

6:22Right. We saw that. 2018 climbed up to 18 ,000, dropped down to three. Right. We saw it climb up to 40 ,000, dropped down to 20. We're not seeing those drastic pullbacks. No. There's institutional investing. A lot of whales. I think, I mean, we still got some political derailing that could potentially happen. We'll see. But, okay, so the next thing is going to be like, well, you can't get the 10 ,000 % rate of return that you once got. Probably not. But there's still room for upside growth. And that's what makes Michael's strategy so interesting because now that's a more risk play that people are taking with leverage.

7:07And then you could add options on top of that where that was his whole thing to begin with. Because before you couldn't even run option plays on like Bitcoin ETF at one point. So that was his position even two years ago of like we're leveraged. that's going to give you higher rate of return than traditional Bitcoin, even though it's kind of like tracking Bitcoin. So if Bitcoin goes up 20%, you could probably get 35 % of micro strategy, let's just say. But then you can also do options on micro strategy and then turn that to 100%. So there are ways to still, long story short, addressing a question that I know is going to be asked.

7:49there are ways to leverage rates of return to actually even grow even higher while still investing in the Bitcoin space that's up to you to see if your risk reward ratio and if it's worth it and if you have the risk tolerance and obviously do your own research you're responsible for any decision that you make but there are ways that you can still accelerate your growth and investments outside of just putting money inside of bitcoin and then just buying holding it what are the cons of investing in michael strategy right because if i'm only asking because in my mind i'm sure people are thinking that too like hey if if crypto does have a slight pullback which it probably will i'm not saying that it'll be a drastic a 50 pullback or a 60 like we've seen they buy it at the current price uh and if let's say in 2026, which everybody in that cycle seems to be a year or has historically been a year where it draws down just a little bit before obviously it starts to appreciate again in that cycle.

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10:11And the economy is all over the place. But 2026 is the year for you to get intentional and make real progress. That's right. Yeah. Each week, we break down what's happening with your money, the most important issues to focus on, and the small moves that make a big difference. Kick off the year with confidence. Listen to How to Money on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings.

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