if someone time traveled to the distant past, there would be a lot of pressure to just fit in to not be called crazy by talking about airplanes and smart phones. Soon enough the person would be indistinguishable from the era that they zapped back to.

i woke up with a thought banging around my head like a stone in a tin can. how do parents set their kids on their creative journeys? as a 7-year old, I remember watching my brother who was 10 pick up make his first wood carving at a class. by 13 he had a table saw and a subscription to a woodworking magazine. his shop grew to a include a router for the rounded table corners, a lathe for making wooden bowls. my parents didn't seem to push him in that direction at all. it just took the first wood carving class.

coming up with a spreadsheet today to compare 3 ways of owning Bitcoin for retirees: FBTC (fidelity bitcoin ETF) with 0.21% annual fee Fidelity Crypto bitcoin with 1% purchase fee STRK Strategy product (6% dividend). my hypothesis is that STRK may just be an FBTC killer if the investment duration is long enough. the question is: ignoring all other factors, what performance of MSTR relative to BTC would result in STRK outperforming FBTC in 10 year timeframe. the comparison between FBTC and Fidelity Crypto is pretty simple: after 5 years Fidelity Crypto is the better choice. Plus eventually you can receive and withdraw Bitcoin directly when Fidelity rolls that out to everyone. so is STRK the better choice to FBTC... ...calculating...