70% of Americans can’t afford a median home. Why? Broken money forced people to use real estate as savings, making homes unaffordable. Houses aren’t savings accounts, they’re meant to be lived in. #Bitcoin demonetizes housing, drives prices down and puts families back in homes.

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Zac 9 months ago
Same Down Under... Can't start a family without a place but the market is insane!!!
Real estate is illiquid, not fungible, subject to obsolescence, and easily captured and weaponized. In fact, it’s a terrible savings account. This tells you how broken money is if we’ve reached this point.
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JT 9 months ago
Come on. It's an open secret at this point.
New videos have been perfect for sharing to friends and family. Thank you Jack 🙏
Actually it's that we just don't let people build houses or claim unused land easily/cheaply, probably because crude oil supply and demand forced us to design population control into our society
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Benking 9 months ago
Absolutely right and logical! When people are forced to invest in real estate instead of real savings, prices skyrocket. Bitcoin can help shift homes back from being investment assets to actual living spaces.
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Benking 9 months ago
When people are forced to invest in real estate instead of real savings, prices skyrocket. Bitcoin can help shift homes back from being investment assets to actual living spaces. View quoted note →
It's much simpler. If housing becomes a store of value for the rich, then they also have no interest of the supply growing and hence block it by all means possible.
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kate 9 months ago
single family homes were bought up by investors and those investors are unfairly profiting. the housing market is broken. most homes are purchased by those over 50.
While I agree with the sentiment that demonetizing residential real estate is important for long-term affordability, folks need to understand that the way your community funds it's fire, police, parks and schools is through a local property tax levied on the fiat value of a home. Cratering fiat housing prices mean cratering local public services. We only want the demonetization to occur when measured in BTC because we haven't solved how to fund public community services in another way yet.
I find this a very interesting point. Yes, today local services depend on fiat property taxes, so we only want housing to demonetize in BTC terms. Under a Bitcoin standard, funding would come through direct BTC taxes, usage fees, local responsibility, and leaner, transparent budgets - rather than hiding behind inflation. I suppose that’s the challenge.
Locally non-Bitcoin ers want tourist tax on homes not used year -Round and I agree with them. 1. They aren’t putting their money back into the economy year-round like locals are and two. #GFY if you don’t understand
I work extremely hard. More than most. I earn in fiat, a decent amount. I converted all my extra fiat to bitcoin as it came in this last month. One day it will likely be enough to buy a house for my son. I know this is true. There is no way even 1% of humans actually believe this. Still, very early.
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Benking 9 months ago
Yeah, it really makes a difference when a place feels like actual living space, not just four walls.
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Benking 9 months ago
Yeah, that’s beautiful — a real family vibe filled with love. ♥️
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Ant 🇺🇸 9 months ago
70% of Americans can’t afford a median home. Why? Broken money forced people to use real estate as savings, making homes unaffordable. Houses aren’t savings accounts, they’re meant to be lived in. #Bitcoin demonetizes housing, drives prices down and puts families back in homes.
The challenge here is that you reinforce the spiral. There are indeed communities with levy rates of 18-25%+ but it is generally a sign the community is financially insolvent. The individual and community incentives are in conflict.
That is in the current paradigm. If house prices fall because they no longer need to be stored of value higher % rates would not necessarily signal the same thing that they do now. Say the current rate is 4% which = $1000. If house prices fall so that $1000 is now 25% the actual dollar value being paid is the same but the house prices are more affordable. Or am I missing something?
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Apiarium 9 months ago
Yeah so many people don't understand that cars & houses are consumables, not investments
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PhileasFoggs 9 months ago
I just had this conversation on X It's all one big scam! Chasing the American Dream for most people, is actually a nightmare, all the components of it just put you in debt, hence this cycle of resentment most people live in Going to College, puts you in debt Buying a House, puts you in debt Having Kids, puts you in debt Debt ridden citizens are obedient citizens. It's all a scam to keep you down!
How you face this transition is key: 1) If you want to own a home, save in bitcoin. Then be patient. 2) If you want a graceful exit from your single-family real estate portfolio, lever into bitcoin. Then let bitcoin be your profit when you end up exiting to a family instead of a hedge fund or REIT. These two actions will allow each side to meet gracefully in the middle where real estate will stabilize at its functional value. View quoted note →