Question....how much one would need to have (in BTC) now, to be considered wealthy men in future....2-3 years from now? Would 1 BTC be enough for reasonable comfy life? Or maybe 10? Or less?
Answer.... Depends how high Bitcoin goes obviously...which is speculation.
The answer about quantity of BTC also depends upon IJudoTina's financial/lifestyle expectations..... Personally, I believe one should NOT just accumulate 10 BTC, for example, and then just sit and wait. I think that a person should continue to grow his/her BTC holdings with available fiat and to the extent s/he feels comfortable continuing to invest into BTC with a dollar cost average methodology.... a little bit every paycheck.
Frequently, I think of these kinds of quantity of investment matters in terms of
passive income that will be generated by the investment, and how much cash does the investor believe s/he needs to generate a sufficient passive income to live comfortably within his/her means... that may be $1,000 for some people and $20,000 for others.
Personally, at the moment, I am o.k. mostly in the $3 to $5k per month range... especially if that income is largely passive... However, I could live on less, if needed, yet I would NOT be too comfortable under $3k per month. Also, I could live on more, and in that regard, I would NOT complain if my passive income were to add up to more than $5K per month - especially, if the income is passive.... For example, if a person has a preference to take 2 or more traveling vacations per year, then how luxurious the vacation or trip could be affected by whether there is sufficient passive income to support such.
Also, I like to consider my passive income to be
truly passive, and NOT eating into the principle. I consider the principle to be available to me only for emergency purposes... or in cases that the principle has appreciated in value much greater and beyond expectations... ....
An example of an
Emergency purpose would be life comforts at the end of life ... he he he.. One inevitable thing about living is death, yet death would likely be more expensive if it were to arrive slowly rather than quickly. Accordingly, I would prefer to have sufficient resources to assist to alleviate my own suffering, if I were to suffer some bad luck that would contribute to my experiencing a slow death.
Regarding an asset appreciating much beyond expectations: Surely, we need to plan ahead to project how much we believe an asset will appreciate (or depreciate). If an asset appreciates in value much beyond our expectations, then that would also be a reason to dip into the principle b/c such a large amount of principle, in those circumstances, would be deemed no longer necessary to generate an adequate amount of passive income...... in other words the principle is generating an income way beyond needs. BTC as an investment and a passive income generator is likely to fall into this category of appreciating beyond expectations (unless you set your expectations too high). For example, one could project a 1% per month appreciation, and then BTC appreciates 20% per month (beyond expectations). On the other hand, one could project to create expectations that are too high by projecting 20% per month appreciation, and then BTC only returns 1% per month.
I am much more comfortable to set my expectations low and then to receive a bonus reward or return, rather than setting my expectations too high, and then getting clobbered.