Bitcoin and the 18.6-Year Real Estate Cycle
Our Thoughts
Bitcoin has a 4-year cycle. Real Estate, 18.6.
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We got super curious about Bitcoin and the 18.6-year Real Estate cycle in early 2021. Since then we’ve read books and followed others in those spaces, learning all we could about the mysterious “magical” Internet money and the largest asset in the world, land.
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Gatekeeper Investment Group
The problem has always been, who maintains the sanctity of the [finance] ledger?
“Can you just forge that ledger? So, historically the central bank would maintain the sanctity of the ledger or the fact that you have a certain dollar bill with a serial number on it maintains the sanctity of the ledger but now Bitcoin has the craziest answer you can imagine, but it turns out to work. Which is everybody has a copy of the ledger. So, everyone on the Bitcoin network who’s running a node keeps a copy of the ledgers from the dawn of Bitcoin until now and there is a testament to the computing power and memory that we have available in modern computers that people can do this at home.” –Nick Szabo on the Tim Ferris podcast 8 years ago
So, what’s the size of the entire Bitcoin ledger?
Bitcoin has been running continuously since 2009, that’s (currently) 16 years, and ALL the transaction data is less than 1TB.
Gatekeeper Investment Group
At less than 100 pages, you can read this book in an afternoon. Yan walks the reader through how Bitcoin was created and what problems it solves. It’s not very technical so most folks should be able to understand it./
Gatekeeper Investment Group
In the second half of the 18.6-year Real Estate cycle, we see luxury and collectible items at peak sales.
In the late 1960s, we had Troll dolls, just before the 1971 Real Estate crash. In the mid-to-late 1980s, we had the Cabbage Patch Kids and Teddy Ruxpin dolls, just before the 1989 Real Estate crash. In the mid-2000s, the Bratz dolls reached their peak sales, just before the 2008 crash.
Have you heard of Build-a-Bear? You know, the custom-built bears that you can build at the mall. They’re up 7,300% since April 2020. And they’ve partnered with Swarovski to make a luxury bear with multiple diamonds.
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Gatekeeper Investment Group
Another interview, but this time Dr. Peterson is the one being interviewed. If you have an hour and 45 minutes, it’s a good one.
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