5 Steps to OWN 1 Bitcoin — Start Small, Win Big! | Hashpower Academy

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hello there and welcome to the hash power academy today I have an interesting video for you to look at the five logarithmic steps these objective milestones 10xing each time to reach one whole bitcoin that is starting with acquiring one 10,000th of a bitcoin then a thousandth of a bitcoin then a 100th of a bitcoinet and then one whole bitcoin now you’ve got to understand there’s two things to consider here that each step is going to take more time and this is because well as you’re going through these milestones Bitcoin is gaining value it’s a currency in fixed supply with energy and compute and dollars all expanding underneath it so when you have a currency with absolute scarcity you’re essentially uh defining a milestone at the top of a mountain that is continually getting steeper as you walk up and so what you have to measure and this video I hope is relevant whether you watch this today as I post it or in 10 years or in a 100 years or even a thousand years that your relativity of yourself as an individual today and what you can earn with your time and energy or your other assets well they’re all going to have a quantifiable amount of money but that is going to diminish over time because Bitcoin is a deflationary energy currency and so it respects and preserves its time and energy and appreciates over time but well your particular moment in time it’s going to have a particular value an exchange rate and so you are objectively uh participating in the unit bias game of going I want one whole bitcoin but that is going to just get harder or in dollars more expensive over time and so I’m just going to take you through some progressional steps as to how you can get to one whole bitcoin if that’s if that’s your goal um or somewhere along the way decide that you’re happy with the amount that you have and the other piece of this to think about is you have to look through the money because you have to think of it like this your income your time and energy into a quantity of dollars or pounds or euros or whatever it is um that’s not the that’s not the first that’s just the first step the second step is well when you go to spend it it seems to buy you less over time and so money is that medium of exchange your time and energy stored in something and it just seems to disappear by the time you reach the point of buying goods and services and so when you think about the quantity of Bitcoin that you want think about the experiences and time and energy that you want to spend in life and that money affording you that ability to do so because time is essentially the scarcest currency that we do have not the Bitcoin but nevertheless let’s go through these stages so different people in the world we all have different ability to access and generate income so sensibly $8 might be a really important milestone to one person but a one-off purchase to another or person living in New York City may spend $800 very quickly but to someone else in the world that’s an entire year’s worth of income or even less and and what this means is that this these goals are going to be specific to each individual person and their ability to locally access um well energy energy resources in monetary form so the first goal is layer two and the reason why I say layer two is you need to be considering the fact that eight or $80 worth of Bitcoin is very very small and this could be essentially a fee that’s that’s the cost of a fee so you want to be using something like the lightning network and being paid on the lightning network just to begin with uh there is a discussion within within that is can we actually be self-s sovereign with uh layer 1 block space getting more and more expensive well there’s the aspects of these layer 2s having quite an extensive amount of decentralization but it’s a it’s an ongoing debate shall we say and the first things here be to to achieve these two steps is is to learn about opening a wallet uh a lightning wallet for example and and learning that’s the key one so we’re going to just write learn learn and acquire so you’re going to have to generate a wallet secure the the 12 words or the 24 words or the private key whichever component that that is provided and secure that small amount of Bitcoin or jump straight to the 80 or $800 Bitcoin part and the layer 2 part is most important because um it’s it’s going to be that layer that’s more for micro payments and small amounts of Bitcoin and so you really want to be focusing on fee optimization with this as well and the second amount of $80 jumping jumping to 1,000th of a bitcoin you could potentially uh use your skills your knowledge and provide it online if you have access to the internet you have the ability to earn money but you’ve got to find it you’ve got to have that curiosity to go out and solve someone’s problem be productive in society and and and see what someone will pay you oh can I pay you in uh can can you pay me in Bitcoin do the work and and settle set settle that internet trade with internet money so to speak now this is the next one $800 or 0.0.1 Bitcoin as of now um this this one’s more about saving in Bitcoin and what I mean by saving is over time um 800 Bitcoin 800 Bitcoin $800 worth of Bitcoin or 0.0.1 not one um that’s going to be something that you accumulate over time so it’s it’s saving in Bitcoin you have your income you have your expenses i hope they’re less than your income and that chunk that’s you’re left over with that’s your your savings what percentage of that you choose to save in Bitcoin should be matching your confidence level if you’re 100% about Bitcoin you could use 100% not financial advice it’s up to you if you’re 50% confidence about Bitcoin maybe use 50% of your savings is always dealing with your expenses lowering your expenses increasing your income and widening that margin but the key thing here as well is you’ve got to measure the amount of blocks between these steps how long in time does it take because remember when you measure when you measure your achievements through these milestones in time you make it individual to you because yes Michael sailor’s buying the next thousand bitcoin 10,000 bitcoin whatever whatever crazy amount others are doing you’re not them we are all to individuals so it’s all about your individual experience and accumulation for yourself because the whole thing about bitcoin is it respects and preserves the time and energy that you put in to acquiring it accumulating it because this fixed supply of 21 million has more energy and compute expanding underneath it so while dollars uh in quantity form buy you less over time Bitcoin affords you more over time so time is always that key component here it’s volatility in it’s volatile in space but uh value preservation in time so what’s the amount of time and we can measure it in blocks between your your your jumps between these milestones and so that next milestone you’re getting from 0.01 bitcoin to 0.1 100th to one/10enth these are really great steps and you should be really proud if you get through these these stages so this one how long did it take you and remember these these steps presumably are going to take longer and longer so if you get to later on in your life and you understand okay this point in the future where 0.1 bitcoin buys you a house um you know this amount of time may this might be 10 years 20 years and if you’re later in your life you go okay that’s not a reasonable goal so having that time measurement in blocks allows you to just understand uh where it’s time to not retire but spend what you have and um and provide it to your your generational your your bloodline um saving yes now the interesting thing about this moment this current sort of value of say $8,000 worth of Bitcoin this is when you should start looking at um the layer one let’s write it in red layer one is uh 800800 800 to $8,000 worth of Bitcoin these sorts of quantities you should be considering this one as well layer one that’s where you can justify spending a bit of it to to store it in in a layer one wallet and and the whole process here is I also recommend you know hardware hardware wallet and you’ve got substantial enough amount of Bitcoin to you should probably be running a node at this point but the al the al the most important piece here that final jump that final milestone between 0.1 and one whole bitcoin um but if if you are just working and saving through life to to to make this jump still we don’t know how long this is going to take and and there could be there’s there’s going to be a slippage what if what if by the time that you get to 0.1 and you’ve got $80,000 you know you’ve now got $80,000 and uh and now a Bitcoin is worth $800,000 as to how long it takes to acquire one whole Bitcoin measure it in time and and the 800,000 goal again it’s not about the quantity that you have it’s about what you want to do with it your individual dreams experiences goals targets business that you want to build maybe you want to build a mining farm I don’t know an off-grid community a citadel um there’s all these sorts of directions but if you can get yourself to one whole Bitcoin you’re going to know wealth and I say wealth as in the ability to afford yourself time in life so that you can explore all the passions and creativity and all of the different things that you want to do in life for example I love to travel i I just want to see the world see all different countries cultures experiences food you name it and um it’s going to cost a lot of money so uh I better start educating lots more people and another piece here about this the um the management of that money we’ve gone from layer two because it’s a small amount of Bitcoin so you don’t want to be paying a high fee to okay I’ve now started accumulating a quantity that justifies securing it say in a hardware wallet um or just store it in a you know store the private key or the words in a piece of metal and whatever your your magical security system is once you start own owning a significant quantity of Bitcoin uh maybe distribute it into several different wallets and and it’s not putting all your eggs in one basket but actually putting your eggs in the same basket but in different places so to speak and uh maybe some multi-IG multi-IG let’s write that in which is uh instead of one private key being able to move the Bitcoin because that’s that’s the power of your private key is the ability to move the Bitcoin if anyone has that access to your key they can move your Bitcoin the power of the private key is the information of it its ability to move the Bitcoin so multi- signature setups is essentially having uh two out of three or four or five or however many different uh private keys that are required to uh all agree to move that same bitcoin and that just provides you security whether you have particular locations or some some other setup or using custodians and banks of Bitcoin banks in the future it’s all down to your uh your wants and needs and desires and risk tolerance and trust if if you do choose to trust other people with securing your money that’s your choice um people are all going to be different and the key thing here is measure these milestones in time not in a quantity of dollars even the quantity of Bitcoin itself is not an objective goal it’s how much time these take uh for you to to to make these jumps let’s write this in multi- sig multi- signature multiple different requirements to uh access the same money this isn’t really a particularly uh niche educational video it’s more just an abstract um progressional progressional video as to how you can preserve your time and energy in a quantity of money and allow you to live the best life that you want to live thank you for listening i hope you enjoy and I’ll see you in the next one goodbye